INTRODUCING THE BEATLES
MONO "AD  BACK"
VEE-JAY LP - 1062
RELEASED  JANUARY 10, 1964

ITEM # :  LP005
CONDITION : NEAR MINT MINUS / NEAR MINT
PRICE :  $6,500

S O L D !!
1/5/10

Fab 4 Collectibles is proud to offer the "holy grail" of Beatle records . . . .
ONE rarest of all American Beatle records, this is the first version
of the first Beatles album in America !!

There are three distinctly different variations to the
mono and stereo back covers to Version One of Introducing The Beatles.
In its FIRST incarnation, the back cover serves
as an advertisement for 25 of Vee-Jay's
"OTHER FINE ALBUMS OF SIGNIFICANT INTEREST" -
thus being tagged the AD BACK  Cover among the Collector's World.

IN ADDITION, The very first slicks used for the album are
easily identifiable as they have "Printed in U.S.A." running vertically along the
left side of the front jacket one to two inches from the lower left corner.

THIS PARTICULAR EXAMPLE OF THE MONO PRESSING IS AN ABSOLUTE BEAUTY,
WITH THE COVER GRADED AT A MOST SOLID NEAR MINT MINUS. only handling wear
that is evident is flaking/ chipping on the corners
of the upper left and lower left.
NO writing, NO splits, NO ring-wear to the front or back cover at all.
The details of this particular Cover is GORGEOUS !!

the colors ARE vibrant and white areas OF THE BACK COVER are very clean.
THE AD GRAPHICS still retain their bold colors, WITH very
little and minor "spotting" wear as evident in the images below :

 
The spine is SOLID, and the print is legible. only wear seen,
as already indicated, is the corner wear :

The ORIGINAL accompanying record is the
VERY FIRST LABEL VARIATION WITH THE COLORBAND AND OVAL,
pressed by ARP. IT ALSO HAS THE MACHINE STAMPED AUDIO MATRIX
AND "ARP" LOGOS IN THE TRAIL-OFF AREAS.
IT IS IN SUPERB AND RADIANT NEAR MINT CONDITION !
one never finds them like this !
VJ1062(1).MR1A, Spizer :

No more than 5,000 of these slicks were printed -
3,800 of which were Mono copies, making any Ad Back copy
very  limited - and extremely RARE.