According to the Canadian Press, the album cover was sold for more than $115,000 US. The cover was sold by its original owner, the sister of the late George Harrison.
The sale price has set a record of the highest sale for an item of that type, According to Mark Zakarin, president of the online auction company who handled the sale.
Louise Harrison has officially sold her copy of Meet the Beatles, which was the first disc from the quartet released in the United States on Capitol Records.
All four of the Beatles had autographed the cover. Harrison wrote, "To Lou with love from `Brother’!!" The other band members wrote similar phrases during a train ride to a Washington concert in 1964.