The Beatles White ALBUM US 1968-70 Embossed 2 LP SET *Post & 4 Pics SWBO Apple

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Double Vinyl LP Beatles White Album - *Complete with all inserts A1565335

Played both records front and back right before I listed on here. They sound great!
No skips but small amounts of normal record sounds.

No significant scratches on the records. Cardboard is slightly split, see photos.

*All original inserts included:
1.) 4 photos (in amazing near mint condition)
2.) 1 poster (only bottom 3rd) see photos

* Poster is torn. Only includes bottom half.(see photos)

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Packaging (From Wikipedia)

The album's sleeve was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton,[144] in collaboration with McCartney.[156] Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name, in Helvetica,[157] was blind embossed slightly below the middle of the album's right side,[158] and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, "to create", in Hamilton's words, "the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies".[159] In 2008, an original pressing of the album with serial number 0000005 sold for £19,201 on eBay.[160] In 2015, Ringo Starr's personal copy number 0000001 sold for world record $790,000 on auction.[161]

Later vinyl record releases in the US showed the title in grey printed (rather than embossed) letters. The album included a poster comprising a montage of photographs, with the lyrics of the songs on the back, and a set of four photographic portraits taken by John Kelly[162] during the autumn of 1968 that have themselves become iconic. The photographs for the poster were assembled by Hamilton and McCartney, and sorted them in a variety of ways over several days before arriving at the final result.[163]

Tape versions of the album did not feature a white cover. Instead, cassette and 8-track versions (issued on two cassettes/cartridges in early 1969) contained cover artwork that featured high contrast black and white (with no grey) versions of the four Kelly photographs. These two-tape releases were both contained in black outer cardboard slipcase covers that stated "The Beatles" and an Apple logo in gold print.[164] The songs on the cassette version of The Beatles[165] are sequenced differently from the album, in order to equalize the lengths of the tape sides.[166] Two reel-to-reel tape releases of the album were issued, both using the monochrome Kelly artwork. The first, issued by Apple/EMI in early 1969,[167][168] packaged the entire double-LP on a single tape, with the songs in the same running order as on the LPs. The second release, licensed by Ampex from EMI in early 1970 after the latter ceased manufacture of commercial reel-to-reel tapes, was issued as two separate volumes,[169][170] and sequenced the songs in the same manner as on the cassette version. The Ampex reel tape version of The Beatles has become desirable to collectors, as it contains edits on eight tracks not available elsewhere,[i] reducing the album's running time by over seven minutes.

During 1978 and 1979, for the album's tenth anniversary, EMI reissued the album pressed on limited edition white vinyl in several countries.[172][173] In 1981, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) issued a unique half-speed master variation of the album using the sound from the original master recording. The discs were pressed on high-quality virgin vinyl.[174]

The album was reissued, along with the rest of the Beatles catalogue, on compact disc in 1987.[175] It was reissued again on CD in 1998 as part of a 30th anniversary series for EMI, featuring a scaled-down replication of the original artwork. This was part of a reissue series from EMI that included albums from other artists such as the Rolling Stones and Roxy Music.[176] It was reissued again in 2009 in a new remastered edition.[177]

A painting of the band by John Byrne was at an earlier point under consideration to be used as the album's cover. The piece was later used for the sleeve of the compilation album The Beatles' Ballads, released in 1980. In 2012 the original artwork was put up for auction.[178]

ATTENTION!

Sorry folks, I didn't notice this when it was first listed but here are some following corrections.

1.) Record Grading says it's Mint.
     I would say it's --- VERY GOOD

2.) Sleeve Grading says it's Very Good.
     I would say it's --- FAIR to POOR (because of the splitting and someone wrote their name on the front)

Sorry for any inconvenience.