Vinyl:  VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Verve Labels are Clean. This is the Original 1964 Verve 1st Pressing! V6-8545.  The definitive pressing, Mastered by the Master of Mastering, Rudy Van Gelder.  This is the stereo version.   Simply one of the Greatest Jazz albums of all-time and literally defines Bossa Nova Jazz.   allmusic gives it 5 stars!!!!    See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  side 1:  V6-8545 Side-1  63-VGS-560-RE-2   3Z    1     S    ("VGS" for Rudy Van Gelder Studios) side 2:    V6-8545 Side-2    64-VGS-561-RE-6    12

Cover: VG+ (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 Steve Huey 

One of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all time, not to mention bossa nova's finest moment,  trumped  by bringing two of bossa nova's greatest innovators -- guitarist/singer  and composer/pianist  -- to New York to record with . The results were magic. Ever since , the jazz marketplace had been flooded with bossa nova albums, and the overexposure was beginning to make the music seem like a fad.  made bossa nova a permanent part of the jazz landscape not just with its unassailable beauty, but with one of the biggest smash hit singles in jazz history -- "The Girl From Ipanema," a  classic sung by 's wife, , who had never performed outside of her own home prior to the recording session. Beyond that, most of the  songs recorded here also became standards of the genre -- "Corcovado" (which featured another vocal by ), "So Danço Samba," "O Grande Amor," a new version of "Desafinado." With such uniformly brilliant material, it's no wonder the album was such a success but, even apart from that, the musicians all play with an effortless grace that's arguably the fullest expression of bossa nova's dreamy romanticism ever brought to American listeners.  himself has never been more lyrical, and  and  pull off the harmonic and rhythmic sophistication of the songs with a warm, relaxed charm. This music has nearly universal appeal; it's one of those rare jazz records about which the purist elite and the buying public are in total agreement. Beyond essential.