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If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears vinyl value

If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears — The Mamas & The Papas album cover
Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

The Mamas & The Papas — If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
2001 MCA111 739-1GermanyReissue, 180g
2010 Sundazed MusicLP 5343USReissue, Mono, URP
2010 Sundazed MusicLP 5343USReissue, Mono, Rainbo Records pressing
2013 Dunhill534 196-3EuropeReissue, Remastered, 180 Gram
2018 Sundazed MusicLP 5343USReissue, Mono, Translucent Gold
2021 UMe00602507461676EuropeReissue, Toilet Cover
2021 Geffen00602507461676EuropeLimited Edition, Reissue, Yellow Opaque
2021 GeffenB0032592-01USReissue, Toilet Cover
2021 GeffenB0032592-01USLimited Edition, Reissue, Toilet Cover, Opaque Yellow
2024 Geffen600753998793UKLimited Edition, Reissue, Green Opaque
2024 Geffen00602507461676USLimited Edition, Reissue, Green Opaque
Undated MCA250 491-1GermanyReissue

12 pressings tracked · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 2001First released 1966; our table starts at 2001 (MCA, Germany). A copy older than 2001 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants2010 US: Reissue, Mono, URP; 2010 US: Reissue, Mono, Rainbo Records pressing; 2018 US: Reissue, Mono, Translucent Gold. Scarce on purpose; collectors pay for that.
Reissues, 2001+4 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. On the 2001 Germany pressing it reads “A33 111 739-1 S1 320” on side one and “A33 111 739-1 S2 320” on side two. Trust the etching over the jacket: covers get traded around, dead wax stays put.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. A clean copy and a worn one of the same pressing sit several grades, and several multiples, apart. Grade record and sleeve separately; see our grading guide.

Do not price the cover. A later disc in a 1966 jacket is a reissue, whatever the sleeve says: the pressing lives in the runout etching and on the label.

Questions

Which pressing of If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears is worth the most?

Original 1966 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 2001 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 2010 “Reissue, Mono, URP” and the 2010 “Reissue, Mono, Rainbo Records pressing”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. On the 2001 Germany pressing the runout reads “A33 111 739-1 S1 320”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears worth today?

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