I´d like to get me an older Monster Compendium/Manual/whatever.
I really dig Brom & Caldwell & Elmore & Parkinson style illustrations.

Which one is best for that kind of taste?

AD&D 2nd Edition White cover? Is the black cover version different.
Binder or book?
1st Ed.?

I´m confused.

The white cover Monstrous Manual for 2nd edition AD&D had some excellent art.  It also had a couple of stinkers.  The goblin was terrible and the orc, while perhaps technically sound, was far less evocative than the 3E version.

I can't speak for the later black covered version.

Thanks!
I´d definitely appreciate any comments on the black cover ed., as one is up for sale at ebay, alongside the Mystara appendix.

The AD&D2E binders for monsters (Monstrous Compendium) don't hold up in use in my experience. Used the Core Rules cds instead of the hardcovers (Monstrous Manual) later on so don't know if the art was reused or not.

IIRC Tony DiTerlizzi (Planescape, Spiderwick Chronicles, etc.) contributed a lot of artwork to one of the hardcover versions.

Here's a link to one I've always been impressed by:
http://www.ludd.luth.se/%7Emcgreag/ls/ls.html#The%20Spectral%20Invasion

My favorite artwork was from the 2E Monstrous Compendium series (The three ring binder one). I like pretty much all of the Pre-Planescape TSR art. The art in the binder is b&w while the art in the black hardback MC is color and somewhat less interesting for some reason.

The 1st editions books have black and white artwork, not much like what you're looking for.  

Personally, I prefer the artwork in the earlier books. 1st ed. Fiend & Folio is the best.

An interesting thread, considering that I'm currently working on illustrations of all the SRD monsters, taking more than a little inspiration from the 1E artwork, while being a great lover of Elmore and the like.
While I'm a fan of the 1E artwork first and foremost, I won't say it's because it was the most technically sound, but because it was both the first and arguably the most sincere.  Of course, defining 'sincere' in this sense is a serious bitch.  
As for the 1E Fiend Folio, it was very hit and miss.  When it hit, it hit HARD and dead on target for great work, when it missed, it missed badly.  But I fell in love with the Kenku and the Flind very likely purely, 100% based on the illustrations of them (as the monsters themselves, based on pure text, aren't much to get excited about).

If Jim Holloway's art were not living, it would have to die and come back 3 days later.

I really dig Russ Nicholson's work.