Vinyl:  NM- Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Has some stray marks that don't affect play.  RSO Labels are Clean.  This is the RSO Reissue of the 1970 Release.  The once-in-a-lifetime dream team of Eric Clapton and Duane Allman on dual guitars, and of course Eric's superb backup band consisting Jim Gordon, Carl Radle and Bobby Whitlock! This is the same team that wound up on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass the same year, 1970.  This is Classic Rock, defined...allmusic gives it 5 stars!!!

Cover: EX+ (see photos)  Gatefold.  
Goldmine Standards.    I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?  First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.  First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.   On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 

Wishing to escape the superstar expectations that sank  before it was launched,  retreated with several sidemen from  to record the material that would form . From these meager beginnings grew his greatest album.  joined the band shortly after recording began, and his spectacular slide guitar pushed  to new heights. Then again,  may have gotten there without him, considering the emotional turmoil he was in during the recording. He was in hopeless, unrequited love with , the wife of his best friend, , and that pain surges throughout , especially on its epic title track. But what really makes  such a powerful record is that , ignoring the traditions that occasionally painted him into a corner, simply tears through these songs with burning, intense emotion. He makes standards like "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and "Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)" into his own, while his collaborations with  -- including "Any Day" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" -- teem with passion. And, considering what a personal album  is, it's somewhat ironic that the lovely coda "Thorn Tree in the Garden" is a solo performance by , and that the song sums up the entire album as well as "Layla" itself.