Vinyl:  VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  ABC Labels are Clean and Bright.   This is the audiophile acclaimed Original 1975 ABC 1st Pressing, Mastered by Ken Duncan of Kendun and Pressed at Columbia's renowned Santa Maria, CA Pressing Plant!!  Their Mastering and pressing process makes the vinyl sound like you're in the room.   ABCD-846.  Sophisticated Jazz Rock Fusion done by some of the best session players in the business, and it still swings!  Steely Dan kinda creates their own reality myth, like The Band and it really comes through on songs like Doctor Wu, Black Friday and Bad Sneakers...   allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!!   See Review Below!
In the dead wax: Side 1:   S1 S  ((Pressed at Columbia's Santa Maria, CA Pressing Plant))   ABCD-846-A  CSM  2 (circled)   KENDUN A  ((Mastered by Ken Duncan of Kendun Recorders, Burbank, CA))  8A
Side 2:  1 S  ((Pressed at Columbia's Santa Maria, CA Pressing Plant))   ABCD-846-B-RE-3  CSM 3 (circled)   KENDUN A  ((Mastered by Ken Duncan of Kendun Recorders, Burbank, CA))  8A       
Cover: VG+ (see photos)   Includes the Original pasteboard lyric/credits inner sleeve.  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some shelf wear and some faint spots on the top rear cover.  Seams, spine and corners are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is 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

Building from the jazz fusion foundation of , created an alluringly sophisticated album of jazzy pop with . With this record, and began relying solely on studio musicians, which is evident from the immaculate sound of the album. Usually, such a studied recording method would drain the life out of each song, but that's not the case with , which actually benefits from the duo's perfectionist tendencies. Each song is given a glossy sheen, one that accentuates not only the stronger pop hooks, but also the precise technical skill of the professional musicians drafted to play the solos. Essentially, is a smoother version of , featuring the same cross-section of jazz-pop and blues-rock. The lack of innovations doesn't hurt the record, since the songs are uniformly brilliant. Less overtly cynical than previous albums, the album still has its share of lyrical stingers, but what's really notable are the melodies, from the seductive jazzy soul of "Doctor Wu" and the lazy blues of "Chain Lightning" to the terse "Black Friday" and mock calypso of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies." It's another excellent record in one of the most distinguished rock & roll catalogs of the '70s.