Endle St Cloud Thank You All Very Much SEALED ORIGINAL 13th Floor Elevators

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SquareTrade © AP6.0 Rare find-- a box of these 1968 albums all still sealed.
This one's the original first pressing on the bluish-green, silver print International Artists label (IA-LP#12), (same label as for 13th Floor Elevators)
No doubt about this.  It's the FIRSTpressing.  To be sure I opened one. it.Weighs 251 grams (Jacket is 112 grams. Vinyl is 139 grams). Trailoff matrix numbers are  IAS-12A and IAS-12B.  There is no "Masterfonics" in trailoff.  
I opened one copy to show the label below.
 
Like , is both a person and a band, a peculiar acid-folk-heavy-psych blend from Houston whose 1968 album is one of the odder releases on the semi-legendary International Artists label, also home to the Red Crayola and . was the lead singer and piano player. (formerly of ) played guitar, (of Los Angeles' ) added drums, and Andrew Melinger (formerly of Houston's the Iguanas) was the bassist.

The group originally formed in early 1968 under the name Endle St. Cloud in the Rain, by which they released the single "Tell Me One More Time (What's Happening to Our World)" backed with "Quest for Beauty." Neither of these songs appears on the group's sole long-player, , which was released later the same year.

(Interestingly, although the sleeve shortened the band's name to , the label keeps the group's original, more mysterious name.) More than a year later, when International Artists was trying to come up with a charting follow-up to 's surprise hit "Hot Smoke and Sassafras," two songs were pulled from this album, "She Wears It Like a Badge" and "Laughter," and released as a single credited simply to , further muddying the nomenclatural waters. By this time, the group had split up; and split Texas for Los Angeles, where they hooked up with three local musicians and released a self-titled album as Potter St. Cloud on the Mediarts label in 1971.