Carmen - Original 19?? US/Japan Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered audiophile Issue LP

rare 19?? US Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 13-track limited edition half speed mastered audiophile vinyl 3LP box issue of Georges Bizets opera 'Carmen' recorded with Tatiana Troyanos, Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, José Van Damm and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and cunducted by Sir Georg Solti.

'Carmen' was originally recorded July 1975 at Henry Wood Hall, Southwark, and subsewuently released the following year on vinyl by the Decca label.
The within all probability late 1980ies/early 1990ies Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab vinyl issue is specially plated and pressed by the Victor Company of Japan and half-speed produced and mastered by Original Masterworks.

Vinyl is housed in a special anti static inner and a special heavy duty protective/stiffening fold-out generic company card inner sleeve - and finally in a picture cover.

All vinyls and 36-page 12" x 12" libretto is housed in an almost 13" square glossy dark brown and gold imbossed box with back spine button closure and back brass plague with numbering of 5000 copies manufactured - this is number 4783.

Picture covers, company onners and box are manufactured in the USA.

Condition: M- (LP vinyl, labels)/VG++ (Cover)/M- (Box):

Vinyl is clean mint - labels likewise flawless.
Inner sleeves are flawless - covers near perfect with just a little shelf wear from being taken in and out of the tight compartments of the box.
Libretto is high VG+ and has faint lines from light bends and a lower mid-right front 1cm rip. The staples used to hold the booklet together are rusty - which fits well with the light mouldy smell from the box.
Box itself has a little lower mid-left front seam rubbing and a couple of short back creases which are superficial and does not trancend through the cover to the underlying material - all in all a beautiful copy, a box which has been used carefully.