A beautiful, barely played 1957 first pressing of The Best of Muddy Waters, on the black and silver Chess label.  The Mint/Near Mint disc looks as if it’s been played no more than once or twice, with no spindle marks on either labels and a bright clean playing surface–extremely rare for this highly collectible album.  There is a bit of light surface noise on the first two tracks as is common with original Chess pressings, but nothing remotely serious.  The cover has some light rubbing to the front and a crease above Muddy’s ear–we grade it EX.  Surely one of the nicest examples we’ve ever seen.