Dark Round The Edges Original Genuine First 1990 Repress

	£		199
	$		264

The very ?rst repress of Dark Round The Edges from 1990.

• Just 8 left now. There will not be any more!!

This one is 13/30 and the winner will receive a Certificate of Authenticity stating that and signed by myself,
Steve Giles, DARK Founder Member.

• Please Note:

I have a White OR Black sleeve version ready to go, complete with the extended booklet, DRTE Story, Certificate & CD

• BUT -

• I will not be able to dispatch until Thursday 8th June at the earliest.
  

The next auction after this will be for 14/30.
I'm not sure when that or subsequent auctions will be - or for how long they'll run due to personal committments/holidays etc. but I believe eBay informs watchers when items are relisted.

Comments/Feedback from previous winners:

"Wow, such a great reissue you have done! Coolest re on Earth!
Awesome artwork and it will be so nice to read the story about you and the band and listen to the music.
Perfect with the certificate!
Thanks for everything Steve, best of regards"
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"Hi Steve!
Recieved the LP yesterday!
Thank you for letting me join the "Dark" Family.
I am truly amazed by the work you have layed down on this "new" repress. Best I`ve ever seen. A true piece of art!
All the best"
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"I have to congratulate you on a superb job.
I'm thinking about keeping the album as a heirloom / investment so the booklets will remain unopened.
I'm just not sure how I divide it between 2 daughters....."
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"Hi Steve,
I picked up the Dark reissue at my local post office on saturday, and it is a fantastic package!
Thank you for taking the effort to make these available!"
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"Hi Steve
Package arrived today and I’m really pleased with it….really high quality printing and content.
Good luck with the other sales and the new album."
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"Hi Steve,
I picked up the package today & it looks absolutely superb :)
Thanks very much for putting this release together.
It's by a country mile the best of the various reissues of the album.
Good luck with the rest of the auctions :)"
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"Hi Steve.
After the first run on my turntable I can't get the smile from my face.
You have opened a window to the past with a cornucopia full of beautiful memories.
Your music accompanied me the last 30 years and will continue to do so for the years to come.
Timeless and priceless.
I am deeply thankful for that."
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"Hi Steve,
LP arrived today and you did an excellent job.
The originial art from the original artist - this can only be surpassed by an original from the 70ties.
But I don't believe in miracles... on the other hand I am holding a musical miracle in my hands right now....
Many thanks again and stay healthy..."
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"Well packed! Thank you very much! Highly recommended!"
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"Fantastic record and package, great communication! Thanks Steve!!!"
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"Excellent, quick delivery, lovely package, thanks"
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"Great item. Great communication. Everybody should own a copy of this classic"
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"safe and fast shipping. very friendly contact. perfect ! 5*"
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"So happy with LP. Great presentation and only limited to 30. 1st class E bay'er."
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"I feel deeply honored to be part of the "DRTE family" - Thanks Steve - Amazing!"
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"Fabulous disc, fabulous person. A good inheritance for my children. Thank you+++"
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This vinyl is from the same repress as that of the Swank Records release by Gregg Breth & Paul Majors back in 1990.
It was subsequently made available by Steve Smith/Kissing Spell in 1991: darkside 001 on his then Darkside label.

Gregg Breth had originally commissioned me to get 250 copies made and shipped over to him for Swank to release.
The pressing plant I used would not press less that 500, so I kept the rest.

After that initial release, Steve Smith contacted me to produce the ?rst CD of Dark Round The Edges and, on ?nding out I had the extra records, bought about 220 of them to release himself.

That left me with the remainder of 30 which, apart from giving a few away back then, I have done nothing with until now.

I am making 20 available (8 left including this one), faithfully reproduced as shown in the photos and this video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fSWR5xywzudGEzQkRvNWZoZzQ/view?usp=sharing

Please Copy & Paste the link into your browser.
The video can be downloaded if you wish.

I have produced the photos and stuck them to the sleeves, much as I did back in 1972 - but the quality of the sleeve (now a true gatefold), photos and booklets, is much improved.

The booklets are produced on high quality satin ?nish paper and are professionally bound photobooks. The LPs are supplied in plastic lined anti-static sleeves and the whole
package is inside a plastic outer sleeve.

Also included is 'The Dark Round The Edges Story’ as remembered by myself.
The story tells of the day and subsequent evenings spent at SIS Studios laying down the backing tracks and the overdubbing.
This is an A4 photobook of the same quality as the new lyric booklet.

In addition, there is a limited edition CD of the backing tracks, without any vocal or guitar overdubs, and includes the out-takes that were not recorded over during the studio
session on 9th July 1972.
These are produced by myself and are presented in a plastic wallet which also contains the artwork insert.
Please Note: the CD and artwork are lnkjet Printed and so will not tolerate damp conditions or ?ngers.
Please handle with care!

You will also receive a Certificate of Authenticity which will be numbered out of 30. This is because I am holding on to some for ourselves.
The album in this auction is 13/30.
The Certificate will also include a few notes on how this recreation came to be.

I am offering these up for auction one at a time and, although I may have one or two ready to go, due to high production cost they will normally be produced to order depending upon the cover and booklet chosen so 14-28 days MUST be allowed for production and dispatch.
There is no option to state this in the Dispatch Time on the listing - and that may say 3 or  4 Days. This is NOT possible if I need to make the sleeve or order a booklet or two.
The sleeve cannot be produced until I am informed which one is required.

Please inform me which sleeve and booklet you prefer at the end of the auction.

I will start producing the sleeve as soon as I can after the auction and I will keep you informed on the progress.

Due to the cost of producing the sleeve & booklets, there is a high starting price.

• One important note to make - the stereo on the vinyl is reversed.
  

I have no idea how or why this happened.
When I ?rst had them pressed I did not have a working turntable and so was not aware of this fact until sometime later.
Obviously, at the time there would only have been a few original LPs and cassette copies to compare them to, so no one would have been any the wiser.
Also I have noticed when checking out a few LPs (as I make the albums up, it is the first time the records have been out of their original sleeves/inners since 1990) that some of the labels on side 2 have slight cracks to one degree or another. I have included a photo to show what I mean, although this is about the worst exanple.

To hear the quality you can download the first 2 tracks. Copy & Paste this link into your browser.

https://mega.nz/#!s4M2hBza!goFxZILlDx20Rq6WUe09nz2POuZT99UEbrRyngUvtoo

The LP will be sent Recorded Delivery and insured. I am making a £8.55 dispatch charge for delivery within the UK or £19.75 for Worldwide delivery.
If the charge is less, a refund for the difference will be sent.
Anything above will be absorbed.

The LPs are the genuine 'First Repress of Dark Round The Edges' from 1990 and probably the nearest most will get to owning an original DRTE - including ME!
I am only making 7 more available after this one - so don't miss these chances.

When these are gone, there will never be any more!

Steve Giles.
DARK Founder Member