Collectibles
- Beatles "Yesterday & Today" Album Cover; asking: best offer
- Wired Magazine; Premier through 7.09 (missing two issues); asking: best offer
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Collectibles
Beatles "Yesterday & Today" Album Cover
In June 1966, the Beatles first released their album "Yesterday & Today" with a "controversial" cover photo, showing them wearing butcher's aprons and surrounded by dismembered baby dolls and chunks of meat.
Pretty mild by today's standards, but in those simpler days, it was a big deal.
A few copies were released to industry people, and probably sell today for thousands of dollars, still in shrink wrap.
The rest of them were held back by Capitol Records before release, and a mild cover showing the Fab Four sitting in and on a steamer trunk was pasted over the original "shocking" cover.
When they went on sale, I bought two (in monaural) and immediately threw one in the bathtub. The glue hadn't fully set, and after a day or two (sorry, Mom!) everything came apart. I dried the cover and stapled it to my wall.
Several years later (1969?), I took it to The Print Mint in Berkeley and had them perform their regular mount, gluing the cover on masonite, sealing the paper, and beveling the edges.
And it has hung on my wall ever since. It's a little faded, and the original staple holes are visible, but it's still in very good condition.
I tried the soaking-in-the-tub process twenty years later with the OTHER one I bought, by which time the glue had fully set. The original cover could not be extracted completely. I still have it too, if you want it.
I have both original vinyl records, in mono, and they're in good condition, but hey, they're vinyl!
So this one is for sale. Yeah, it's authentic, and original, and rare, and has provenance, but after forty years, I can't see it anymore. If you're not familiar with the photo, it might be shocking, or surprising, or at least interesting, but for me it has become invisible.
So, what is it worth? Looking on eBay, it would probably bring $350. If you really want it, you are welcome to make an offer.
Fair enough?
asking: best offer
Wired Magazine; Premier through 7.09 (missing two issues)
Missing 4.12 (with the Neal Stephenson FLAG article) and 6.12.Seven years. All the good issues, and then down the toilet with Conde-Nast
I also have the reader's survey when C-N bought Wired, asking an incredible selection of clueless questions.
Excellent condition. Definitely a rich slice of recent history, but I have no idea what these are worth.
asking: Best Offer. 90 magazines; maybe $75?
2006-03-08