Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III

Can anyone help I can't appear to locate the exact pressing - is it transitional?

123 Do what thou wilt 2401002 A-5 GHC
128 So mote it be 2401002 B-7 GHC

Warner Bros. Music
Produced by Jimmy Page

Sleeve has No Made in
Atlantic Stereo SD 7201 no mention of Deluxe

Also has the Celebration Misprint Omits Day on Label has Day on Sleeve

Many thanks

Help ! I wonder if my copy of this vinyl is misprinted or not.
It seems to be this one : https://www.discogs.sie.com/fr/release/4030185-Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin-III but the labels don't match : orange and pink on side A, very light pink and pink on side B. Any guess ?
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I have the original UK vinyl (2401-002) but with a German cover (with the moving wheel); there are more of these around than makes sense if people were just marrying them up, it feels like the factory must have had a hand in it somehow. Anybody know the story?

Aiming to pause the busy working schedule that launched them in precocious super stardom, in the early spring of 1970 Led Zeppelin took time to relocate to the remote Bron-Y-Aur cottage in the welsh park of Snowdonia, where they came up with the acoustic disempowerment of their sound that is the more evident newness about their third studio album. The record is concretely halfway between what was before and what will be in the future and it represents their proper career turning point, as well as an ambitions fulfiller. We have the proto metal pounders we were used to ("Out on the tiles"), but more adventurously departing from blues rock than the past, getting sumptuous and oniric in "Immigrant song" or psychedelic/'50s rockabilly retro in "Celebration day". In this third lp the Zep's blues basic element is more polished and refined, masterfully condensate in the indulgent manifesto "Since I've been loving you". The acoustic injection comprises dark middle eastern textures ("Friends", with its inventive guitar tuning - one of Page's favorite tracks of the lp - and a hunting orchestration arranged by Jones), a relaxed protest modern folk exercise that is aware of Joni Mitchell's work ("That's the way"), some country languors ("Tangerine", "Bron-Y-Aur stomp") and two traditionals, the rhythmed build-up of "Gallows pole" (with Page debuting on banjo) and the deconstructed delta blues of "Hats off to (Roy) Harper". At the time of the album release, its overall laid back flow shocked the band's hard rock fans and channeled bad reviews, ending up in the shortest chart life among the first five Zeppelin records. Nonetheless the new elements cemented in a definitive way in the Led Zeppelin sound becoming their adjusted broadened trademark and the subsequent three albums - which all benefit from that evolution - will be received with wide praise. 4,5/5.

Simply stunning. Especially side two which sounds hotter than side one which is odd. But the dynamic soundstage is light years ahead of my other pressings…in fact not even close. Surprised at such a noticeable difference to be honest.

The lamination is lifting big time on my copy. I read somewhere, sometime that this was a common fault with these 1st pressings. It's not due to heat exposure or anything. The vinyl is perfect with no deformations whatsoever.

There’s a reason this album is regarded as not just Zeppelin’s best album, but quite possibly the best sounding. Very bright and beautiful shimmer to Jimmy’s guitar and Bonzo’s cymbals. There is great separation and dynamics, JPJ’s bass RATTLES on SIBLY. There’s no beating the A5/B5, but any early copy on the Plum label will do. You Zep fans owe yourself to get one.

So many Russian counterfeit mini LPs on the market. It's a complete gamble whether you'll receive a genuine one or not - always ask the seller to check the underside of the CD which has different markings.

All these reviews and not one that talks about the sound quality...Can anyone advise how it sounds?

I have an early copy 2401-002 with the Crowley quotes and the track listen in the label as ‘celebration’. Is that a rare copy. It’s my late dads.