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Here’s an awesome piece of Beatles memorabilia that any record collector or fan of the Fab Four would love to own: the first mono pressing of 1968’s The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album). Even better: It’s Ringo’s personal copy.

The auction, organized by Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles, will be held Thursday, December 3 at 10 a.m. PST. With an opening bid of $20,000, the album is expected to sell for between $40,000 and $60,000.

From the auction report:

As the record manufacturing plant certainly had every machine available simultaneously pressing copies of this album it is impossible to say with certainty which records were truly the very first off the press, but these discs were certainly among the very first. The album covers however were numbered in sequence, insuring that this No.0000001 sleeve is the very first finished cover. The top load sleeve is in near mint minus condition and would be near mint if not for the bumped upper right front gatefold corner, but it is overall very clean and fresh with very minor abrasions.

Full details of the auction are available at julienslive.com.

A special thanks goes out to Sound & Vision reader Scott Oakley for bringing this news to our attention.