IRON BUTTERFLY In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Rare 1969 Japanese 6-track stereo vinyl LP, manufactured by Nippon Grammophon with custom blue & green Atlantic labels, the first Japanese issue of this brooding psych/proto-metal classic, housed in a heavy duty front laminated & internally pasted gatefold sleeve with English lyrics across the inner spread and stereo logo on the front, with the '¥1800' price point on the obi echoed on the back cover. The sleeve is in fabulous shape for its age withonly two notecable creases in the lamiante to the otherwise quite glorious front panel. The back panel and spine are free of wear and look fantastic, bright vivid with not even a hint of crushing to the spine. The obi with 'SMT-1054' catalogue number printed at the top and bottom, and has only light age wear with no rips or tears. The pasted inner spread is all intact along with the flipside of the obi and though due to the unlaminated surface has some overall foxing through age, displays no other wear, rips, tears, unpeeling or writing. The vinyl shows only very light signs of play with just a couple of light cosmetic hairlines - overall a fantastic copy, now almost fifity five years on and the first this variant we've seen).