Vinyl:  EX+ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  RCA labels are clean.  This is the rare RCA 1976 2LP 1ST PRESSING!  RCA Special Products DPL 2-0188.  Laurie House LH-8009.  This compilation came out when The Monkees were still the darlings of '70s Television, countless reruns seen in homes all over the world, after school. Contains all of their essential hits plus some rarities like "Porpoise Song", off the rare, epic psychedelic mini-masterpiece, "Head".  Also rare songs that were initially only released as singles or B-sides, like "Valleri", "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", D.W. Washburn", "Tear Drop City", etc....  See Biography Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Stampers:  Side 1:  dPL2-0188A-1     I    A1 Side 2:  dPL2  0188B  1   I    A1 Side 3:  dPL2  - 0188C-1   I   A1 Side 4:  dPL2 - 0188d  - 1  I  A1
Cover: VG++ (see photos; some faint staining; some cover transference on rear bottom cover.)  
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.

Artist Biography by Mark Deming