Vinyl:  VG+ Play Graded.  Sounds great!  High gloss Vinyl. Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  Harvest Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the 1973 Harvest 1st Pressing!   SMAS 11163. This is the definitive variant; the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Mastered by Wally Traugott and pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA pressing plant!!  The Floyd's most regaled masterpiece!  One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!  all music gives it 5 stars!! See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Side 1: 1-11163-F-10   5   the * glyph ((pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA pressing plant))  Wy  ((Mastered by Wally Traugott))
Side 2:  2-11163-F-10   4   the * glyph ((pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA pressing plant))  Wly  ((Mastered by Wally Traugott))
Cover:  VG+  (see photos)  Gatefold.  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some shelf and ring wear. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits.  No writing.  No bumps. Some creases and some marks left by tracing on the back cover that you are noticed when you hold the cover at certain angles.  Spine print is worn with some chipping.   

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate a record accurately by just visually inspecting it.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).

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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box. 
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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

By condensing the sonic explorations of  to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections,  inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with . The primary revelation of  is what a little focus does for the band.  wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of 's slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo-psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues-rock before turning back to psychedelia. It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world.  may have better albums than , but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.