Vinyl:  VG/VG+  Play Graded. Sounds Very Good!   Atlantic Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the audiophile acclaimed 1969 Atlantic 1ST PRESSING, pressed at Columbia's Terre Haute, IN Pressing Plant!  SD 8236.   Enjoy warmer, deeper bass and drums. Silkier vocals. It feels like you're in the room where the music's being made!  Legendary Rock/Metal/Blues!  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 One:  Stampers:  ST-A 691671-1F   CTH  1T  ((Pressed at Columbia's Terre Haute, IN Pressing Plant))
Side Two:  Stampers:  STA 691672-1D   CTH  1T  ((Pressed at Columbia's Terre Haute, IN Pressing Plant))

On the labels:  matrices and CTH ((Terre Haute, IN))    

Cover: VG+  (see photos) Gatefold.   Front and back of cover artwork is rich, clear and bright, with minor shelf wear.  Name written lightly on top right corner and tape remnant on bottom of back cover.  Seams, corners and spine are solid except for top seam of back cover has clear tape.  Spine print has wear and is partially readable.

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

Recorded quickly during 's first American tours, provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. Since the group could only enter the studio for brief amounts of time, most of the songs that compose are reworked blues and rock & roll standards that the band was performing on-stage at the time. Not only did the short amount of time result in a lack of original material, it made the sound more direct. still provided layers of guitar overdubs, but the overall sound of the album is heavy and hard, brutal and direct. "Whole Lotta Love," "The Lemon Song," and "Bring It on Home" are all based on classic blues songs -- only, the riffs are simpler and louder and each song has an extended section for instrumental solos. Of the remaining six songs, two sport light acoustic touches ("Thank You," "Ramble On"), but the other four are straight-ahead heavy rock that follows the formula of the revamped blues songs. While doesn't have the eclecticism of the group's debut, it's arguably more influential. After all, nearly every one of the hundreds of imitators used this record, with its lack of dynamics and its pummeling riffs, as a blueprint.