The Wailers Catch A Fire Original 'Zippo Lighter' Cover

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                     THE WAILERS 'CATCH A FIRE'

                  Island Records ILPS 9241  UK Import

This is the original 'Zippo lighter' cover.  Vinyl is NM, played once. Label is the original 'palm tree' Island label.  Cover is VG.  Some creases in the top corners from sitting in a record bin, a little wear on the top right corner.
No ringwear, no scuffs.  Hinge is intact and working perfectly.  A good clean cover.

Unless you bought this album around the time of its initial release, chances are your copy is enclosed in a regularly constructed cover featuring a picture of Bob Marley smoking a joint. But if yours is in fact one of the first 20,000 copies issued of Catch a Fire, you are -- according to Tim Clark, former director of marketing and art at Island Records -- the lucky possessor of a collector's item.

Label head Chris Blackwell had commissioned designers Rod Dyer and Bob Weiner to strike up something special for this LP. Dyer and Weiner conceived of a cover modeled after a Zippo cigarette lighter, which has a hinged top. "The top half," says Clark, "was riveted to the bottom half, which was a receptacle for the record and its inner bag, so the thing literally opened as a Zippo lighter would."

A clever idea, but not a practical one, as it turned out. "The problem was getting the top half to fit the bottom," says Clark. "Each copy had to be hand-assembled." Since this was hardly cost-effective, a more standard design was substituted after the first shipment -- with a shot of Marley catching his own sort of fire.

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