David Bowie - Young Americans Vinyl Record Album

This item is a 12-inch 33 1/3 RPM vinyl long-play (LP) record for David Bowie's 1975 studio album, 'Young Americans.' The album cover art features a stylized, back-lit photographic portrait of David Bowie by Eric Stephen Jacobs, showing the artist with his signature mid-70s orange-red hair, holding a smoking cigarette. The cover design includes the artist's name and album title in a distinctive cursive script in the upper left corner. The physical construction is standard cardstock with a printed glossy finish. Regarding condition, the cover shows visible signs of shelf wear and age. There is prominent 'ring wear' on the front surface where the circular outline of the internal record has rubbed the artwork. The corners show significant blunting and scuffs, particularly at the bottom right where there is visible delamination or whitening of the cardstock. A notable personalized marking is present: the initials 'DV' are written in ink on the back of Bowie's hand in the artwork. There is also a small notch or tear on the right edge. Based on the lack of a barcode or modern reissue branding, this appears to be an original 1975 or early vintage pressing on the RCA Victor label. The item represents a pivotal era in Bowie's career known as the 'Plastic Soul' period.