Vinyl:  VG++ Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  High gloss Vinyl.  Harvest Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the 1971 Harvest 1st Pressing!   SMAS-832. This is the audiophile acclaimed variant, Pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA Plant!  The Floyd's next mini masterpiece, released just previous to Dark Side Of The Moon. Epic Floyd.  allmusic gives it 5 stars!! See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Has the * glyph ((Capitol's Los Angeles, CA pressing plant)) on both sides, stamped.  Also, matrices, etched, both sides.  Complete dead wax information cheerfully given upon request. 
Cover:  VG+  (see photos)  Gatefold.  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.  Spine print is clear.

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 

, for all its glories, was an acquired taste, and  wisely decided to trim back its orchestral excesses for its follow-up, . Opening with a deliberately surging "One of These Days,"  spends most of its time with sonic textures and elongated compositions, most notably on its epic closer, "Echoes." If there aren't pop songs in the classic sense (even on the level of the group's contributions to ), there is a uniform tone, ranging from the pastoral "A Pillow of Winds" to "Fearless," with its insistent refrain hinting at latter-day .  were nothing if not masters of texture, and  is one of their greatest excursions into little details, pointing the way to the measured brilliance of  and the entire  era. Here,  exerts a slightly larger influence, at least based on lead vocals, but it's not all sweetness and light -- even if its lilting rhythms are welcome, "San Tropez" feels out of place with the rest of . Still, the album is one of the 's most consistent explorations of mood, especially from their time at Harvest, and it stands as the strongest record they released between 's departure and .