Lot 318:
A Collection of Five Vintage Rock and Country Vinyl LP Records including Grateful Dead and Tom Waits
Description
A collection of five 12-inch vinyl LP records spanning folk rock, country rock, and Americana genres. The group includes several notable titles from the 1970s and 1980s.
The Grateful Dead album, American Beauty, is housed in a single-pocket jacket featuring a central rose illustration over a wood-grain patterned background. This title is on Warner Bros. Records.
The Alabama album, Mountain Music, features the band members pictured over a Confederate flag motif. The top right corner of the jacket bears the printed text AHL1-4229 STEREO, identifying it as an RCA Victor release.
Don McLean’s Chain Lightning is presented in a jacket with a large-scale close-up portrait of the artist. This album was released on Millennium Records and distributed by RCA.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Symphonion Dream is encased in a black-bordered jacket with a central circular medallion design. The bottom right corner features the printed catalogue number UA-LA441-G, indicating a United Artists Records release.
The Tom Waits album, Heartattack And Vine, features a unique jacket design mimicking a newspaper titled The Tom Waits Gazette. The top right corner is printed with the catalogue number 6E-295, identifying it as an Asylum Records release.
Condition report:
The collection is in used condition. The American Beauty jacket shows visible wear along the edges and some scuffing at the corners. The Alabama jacket exhibits ring wear on the dark red fields and minor blunting to the corners. The Chain Lightning sleeve shows significant edge wear with whitening along the spine and surface ring wear. The Symphonion Dream jacket has moderate ring wear and chipping at the edges. The Heartattack And Vine jacket shows visible corner creasing and shelf wear; the yellowed tone appears to be a deliberate part of the newspaper design. As the vinyl discs are not visible, they are not graded; however, based on the exterior packaging, the set is considered to be in Good (G) to Very Good (VG) used condition overall.
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