STEELY DAN " PRETZEL LOGIC "SUPER UK FACTORY SAMPLE 1ST RARE ON PROBE & NOT ABC

	£		21
	$		28

NOT ONLY A SUPER UK FIRST ISSUE FACTORY SAMPLE SLEEVED COPY BUT ALSO ONE OF ONLY A TINY HANDFUL RELEASED ON THE PROBE LABEL , SO RARE IN FACT MOST PEOPLE GO NOT REALISE THESE PROBE COPIES of this LP EVEN EXIST L@@K...

EMI ESTABLISHED THE PROBE LABEL AROUND 1970 AS A SPECIALISED HOME FOR THE ACTS RECORDING ON THE U.S. A.B.C. DUNHILL LABEL WHICH UP UNTIL THEN EMI HAD INCLUDED WITHIN THEIR STATESIDE LABEL

HOWEVER IN LATE 1973/EARLY 1974 EMI UK STARTED ISSUING THESE ABC DUNHILL ACT'S LP'S UNDER IT'S OWN ABC LABEL AND NOT ONLY WAS THE PROBE LABEL WOUND UP BUT MUCH OF IT'S BACK CATALOGUE WAS RE-ISSUED ON ABC WITH NEW EMI/ABC CAT NUMBERS.

ACCORDINGLY 99.9 PERCENT OF ALL COPIES OF THIS LP WERE RELEASED ON ABC AND ONLY A TINY RARE HANDFUL SUCH AS THIS WERE ISSUED ON PROBE !!

SO THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY RARE LP ! 

FOR AUCTION IS THE UK LP  

ARTIST : STEELY DAN

COUNTRY: UK

CAT NO:    SPBA 6282

LABEL: PROBE

DATE :  JAN 1974

WEIGHT: 120g

TRACK LISTING :

MATRIX:   A2 B1 

CONDITION......

SLEEVE : SUPERB EARLIEST PROBE SLEEVE, THESE EARLY MORE FRAGILE SLEEVES USUALLY WARE BADLY, THIS ONE HASN'T AND I WOULD GRADE AS EXCELLENT MINUS DUE TO SUNNING AT THE OTHERWISE PERFECT SPINE AND A CRACK ON THE INSIDE GATEFOLD

VINYL VISUAL : STILL RETAINS IT'S FIRST PRESSED SHEEN, UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LIGHT BARELY EVEN ANY BAG REMOVALS ARE IN EVIDENCE, GRADED VISUALLY AS EXCELLENT TO EX PLUS 

LOVELY MEGA RARE

PROBE EXAMPLE  - GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!!

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you. ALL MY RECORDS ARE USUALLY SOLD ON VISUAL GRADINGS ONLY, THEREFORE, WITH THE SINGULAR EXCEPT ON THOSE RARE OCCASSIONS WHERE I DO STATE THEY HAVE BEEN PLAY GRADED, AS ALL DISCS ARE 2ND HAND ANY PLAYING DEFECTS ARE THEREFORE CAVIAT EMPTOR AND SO NON REFUNDABLE. I ONLY REFUND  WHERE AN ACTUAL GRADING OF MINE IS DISPUTED

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DOMESTIC UK RECORDED DELIVERY  INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTE BELOW.

(Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO BE READ,  

COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL HAS JUST BEEN INCREASED BY THE UK POST OFFICE SO TO EUROPE FOR A SINGLE LP IS USUALLY GBP 9.99 NOW AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 13.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 16.99 FOR A DOUBLE...FOR COMBINED POSTAGE EACH ADDITIONAL LP AFTER THE FIRST WILL USUALLY BE AND EXTRA G 2.00 PER EACH ADDITIONAL LP 

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