COMUS First Utterance Original 1971 press VG/??

£ 71

$ 94

£ 71 Sold For

Apr 25, 2010 Sold Date

Apr 18, 2010 Start Date

£ 4 Start price

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Description

The gatefold sleeve is VG. It is unlaminated, and slightly grubby. There are no major creases, a few mini creases run from the front to the back, across the spine. The edges and spine have some rubbing, mainlt to the corners, the inner gatefold is clean, and uncreased.

The lyric inner is present. Some would-be drummer has been practising on it, causing small splits to the paper in 3 places, see pic.4.

The vinyl is a bit problematic. The general condition is VG+, but the first two tracks on Side 1 are affected by a surface mark, Pic.7. On track 1, it only really affects the quiet passages, which account for about a quarter of the track. On track 2, it is more pronounced during the slow, quiet intro, and eventually it sticks once, just before it disappears, leaving the remaining two thirds to play normally. Side 2 plays VG+, there being just a dozen light clicks on 'Bitten'. The labels are clean, with a few spindle marks.

To summarise, as unfortunate as the defect is, over 80% of the album plays VG+, with no problems.

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