Vinyl:  VG++ Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  Apple Photo Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the Apple SW 3372 1ST PRESSING!!  This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, mastered by Sam Feldman at Bell Sound, NYC and pressed at Capitol's renowned Los Angeles, CA Pressing Plant!!  A truly profound statement from Lennon commenting on his own life and the demons that he was working through at the time...and yet, this is only half of it.  There are songs of sublime beauty as well.  In fact the way the album is sequenced, we get a big cathartic moment of "Mother", followed by the transcendence of "Hold On", etc, etc throughout the entire album experience...The eminent Greil Marcus, one of the finest Rock 'N Roll writers had this to say about Lennon's final verse on the song "God":  “John’s singing on the last verse of ‘God’ may be the finest in all of Rock..." ... Epic and Crucial.   One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!  allmusic gives it 5 stars!!!
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In The Dead Wax:  Side 1:  SW-1-3372 Z3 (etched)  and the * glyph ((Pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles Pressing Plant))  Bell Sound sF  ((Mastered at Bell Sound, NYC, by Sam Feldman))

Side 2:  SW-2-3372 Z10 (etched)  and the * glyph ((Pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles Pressing Plant))  Bell Sound sF  ((Mastered at Bell Sound, NYC, by Sam Feldman))
Cover: NM  (see photos)  IN SHRINK! Vintage Price Sticker!  Includes the custom credits/lyrics inner sleeve with personalized note from John to Yoko.  Some of the shrink is missing from the front right side. (see photos). 
Interestingly, the cover photo of this one and Yoko's Plastic Ono Band were taken by Dan Richter, who not only was cartoonist Mischa Richter's son, but who portrayed the "lead" ape in "2001: A Space Odyssey"!!  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, essentially flawless.  Seams and corners are solid and clean, essentially flawless.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is crystal clear.
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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

The cliché about singer/songwriters is that they sing confessionals direct from their heart, but exploded the myth behind that cliché, as well as many others, on his first official solo record, . Inspired by his primal scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov, created a harrowing set of unflinchingly personal songs, laying out all of his fears and angers for everyone to hear. It was a revolutionary record -- never before had a record been so explicitly introspective, and very few records made absolutely no concession to the audience's expectations, daring the listeners to meet all the artist's demands. Which isn't to say that the record is unlistenable. 's songs range from tough rock & rollers to piano-based ballads and spare folk songs, and his melodies remain strong and memorable, which actually intensifies the pain and rage of the songs. Not much about is hidden. presents everything on the surface, and the song titles -- "Mother," "I Found Out," "Working Class Hero," "Isolation," "God," "My Mummy's Dead" -- illustrate what each song is about, and chart his loss of faith in his parents, country, friends, fans, and idols. It's an unflinching document of bare-bones despair and pain, but for all its nihilism, it is ultimately life-affirming; it is unique not only in 's catalog, but in all of popular music. Few albums are ever as harrowing, difficult, and rewarding as .