A superb Near Mint/Near Mint to Near Mint- first pressing of Bob Dylan’s 2 LP masterpiece, BLONDE ON BLONDE, with the uncensored gatefold cover. This is the cleanest first pressing of this classic album we’ve had in years. The discs look as if they’ve been played no more than two or three times and sound great (the stamper numbers are -2C on each side.) The labels have either no spindle marks, or a single faint one. The playing surfaces are beautiful–there are faint and silent pressing marks on Disc 1, so we’ve reduced the grade to NM-, but these are inaudible and only barely visible under a halogen bulb very close up. The prone to wear cover too is superb. The original owner put one piece of clear tape down the middle of the gatefold to close the flaps, but it’s almost invisible, as you can see from the photos. This is the original cover with the photograph of Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, who protested her inclusion and was removed from subsequent pressings.