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Important note:
I am sorry to announce that 2008 will be the last year for the Parnassus Select catalog. Sharp declines in sales, both in the number of records sold and the prices we get for them, have made the record business unprofitable, and it cannot continue. This realization also made the boss (Leslie Gerber) realize that I have been doing this long enough (37 years for the catalogs, 39 years altogether including LP publishing). It's time for a change. We will continue to provide you with our usual quality of service--for whatever that's worth!--until it becomes time to close the business, a decision which will be contingent on the sale of the house where we work. Most likely we will discontinue the business sometime this summer. We'll give customers plenty of notice to complete any outstanding transactions, so please don't hesitate to order in the future. There will be no close-out sale; we have already arranged for the donation of our remaining stock to a university library. One reason for announcing our closing well in advance is to give customers a last opportunity to order our custom CDs and DVDs and the private CDs we have been ordering from other suppliers. We will place our last order for the imported private CDs (including the Rare Moth items included in this catalog and our previous one) sometime in February. Our Parnassus Custom Video and Dis private items will be available only as long as we are publishing our catalogs, and some may run out of stock before then. I am intending to continue the Parnassus CD label, and possibly even to increase the number of discs published. I'm also hoping to expand my writing career, and, frankly, to loaf a little more. All those records sitting on the shelf! It's time to enjoy them without having to use them mostly for background while I type listings. --Leslie Gerber Leslie Gerber |
| "Ex-library": usually a dreaded designation. This catalog, however, contains about 200 LPs from a college library collection (selected by us from a much larger group) which had been accessioned but never circulated. Uniformly, these LPs either have two small stickers in the upper left corner of the front of the jacket, or obvious damage to the cover where the stickers have been removed. Otherwise the records meet our usual grading standards. We recommend that customers who have a major interest in the cosmetic quality of record jackets avoid these items; others will enjoy the opportunity to acquire rare items at somewhat lower than usual prices. |
| For collectors of the unusual, we have managed to capture a Special Order, Limited Edition, Private Issue CDR label which has eluded us for years: Rare Moth. Half of that series is listed in this catalog, and the remaining half was included in Select P349. A few knowledgeable customers have been requesting items on this label for years and we have never had access to them until now. Most likely, these will be one-time-only listings, so if you are seeking to fill in your collections of Tennstedt, Celibidache, and the other artists represented in the Rare Moth series, we recommend you order at once. Our supplier has warned us that Rare Moth's sound quality is not as consistently fine as that of the various other Special Order, Limited Edition, Private Issue CDR labels we have offered in the past, and we have no way of previewing individual items, so we have to offer them with that qualification. |
Grading Details
This listing of records is graded according to the following system:
ADDITIONAL CODES USED IN THIS LIST: OP = Out of print CD; AS = also issued in genuine stereo; BJ = blank jacket; COH = cut-out hole in jacket; D = digital recording; Df = Dynaflex (thin) pressing; EAR = early pressing; EP = English pressing; F = fake stereo; FOT = few odd ticks; LSM = harmless light surface marks; PB = pressing bubble(s); Q = quad; S = stereo; SD = "shaded dog" label; TE = "thrift edition" (no program notes); WD = "white dog" label; x = light scratch; COH = Cut out hole/notch
Any other defects will be described in detail. We do not knowingly sell records which will not track properly. No ratings can guarantee quiet surfaces unless the original pressing had them. Condition ratings apply to the records only; wear or damage on the jackets are described only when they are severe.
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