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HermitFromPluto
JG Valuation Board
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Last Visit: 29 Nov 2008
Posts: 981
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:08 pm |
 
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Rakeesh sah Tarna
Prolific Collector
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Last Visit: 04 Dec 2008
Posts: 788
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Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:14 pm |
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misterspock
Valuation Board
Joined: 25 Sep 2007
Last Visit: 03 Dec 2008
Posts: 42
Location: Los Angeles
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Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:18 pm |
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Plaag
Subweb Admin
Joined: 08 Nov 2002
Last Visit: 03 Dec 2008
Posts: 3156
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Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:12 pm |
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1st print, 3rd release
Can tell by the back of the cover sheet.
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Rakeesh sah Tarna
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Joined: 04 Dec 2005
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Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:07 am |
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gyg
Valuation Board
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Last Visit: 02 Dec 2008
Posts: 1248
Location: UK
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Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:15 am |
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HermitFromPluto
JG Valuation Board
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Last Visit: 29 Nov 2008
Posts: 981
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:39 pm |
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This guy has four Frank Fazetta puzzles. Not really JG, but he did some artwork for JG, so thought I'd post them here:
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JohnGaunt
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Joined: 20 Feb 2006
Last Visit: 03 Dec 2008
Posts: 1014
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Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:05 pm |
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Blackmoor
Valuation Board
Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Last Visit: 04 Dec 2008
Posts: 2095
Location: Canada
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Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:01 am |
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Rakeesh sah Tarna
Prolific Collector
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Last Visit: 04 Dec 2008
Posts: 788
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Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:21 am |
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| Blackmoor wrote: | Unfortunalty only ships to the US  |
ask mary here?? never know even if not elite collector  |
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Rakeesh sah Tarna
Prolific Collector
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Last Visit: 04 Dec 2008
Posts: 788
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Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:54 pm |
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jg collector directory on purchase list now ^^ |
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Bill Owen
Active Collector
Joined: 11 May 2008
Last Visit: 24 Nov 2008
Posts: 54
Location: Decatur IL
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Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:43 pm |
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| Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote: |
jg collector directory on purchase list now ^^ |
FYI, 67 JG history books purchased in first 6 days so I am very pleased. But if anyone thinks their book is junque, I will make a full refund.
Incidentally, the price will start inching up shortly... I wanted to give you fans a chance at it with a pre-publication discount.
Back in 1977-1978, we would NEVER have considered producing a 36 page book with full-color on nearly every page and heavy, quality paper. It was just too expensive and yet when you adjust for inflation, this product is very little more than we sold projects of similar page-count but fewer words and much fewer images.
The thing that kept us from doing the full color was the $500 set-up for color on 8 pages (I think, this might be higher now)... so for a product of this size there would be an extra $2000 charge before 1st copy is printed!
The print-on-demand concept isn't perfect and may seem a bit overpriced or quality a bit under mass-market expectations BUT the fact that you can get a highly specialized micro-market edition out at nearly market rates is an amazing feat of modern technology.
One caveat, I am not really good at photo-retouching and only corrected about 10 of the photos. Just because I think the pictures look okay doesn't mean that the book in 100% professional printing in this one respect. Shoot, I never did get a cerificate of graphic design training completion from the Wizard of Oz so you may think some of it is weird.
There is one other nominal flaw but I'm going to keep it to myself to see if anyone notices it. I have learned over the years that many of my travel customers seem to enjoy stomping on my generous typos and clumsy writing... so since I bothered to do better on these items, I left in at least one oddity to delight the sharp-eyed. 
As I vacuumed leaves today, I "prototyped" 2 games in my head and thought of several old stories I could have included in the book if I had only left it unpublished it as long as another ruleset that JG is still waiting to publish 30 years later Anyway, since a 2nd edition of my history seems unlikely I will try to answer people's questions at my jg page: http://www.g-design.us/jg |
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JohnGaunt
Valuation Board
Joined: 20 Feb 2006
Last Visit: 03 Dec 2008
Posts: 1014
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Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:57 am |
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| Bill Owen wrote: | FYI, 67 JG history books purchased in first 6 days so I am very pleased. But if anyone thinks their book is junque, I will make a full refund.
Incidentally, the price will start inching up shortly... I wanted to give you fans a chance at it with a pre-publication discount.
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Will you make any changes for the published (non-prepub) version? Any changes in content, layout, etc. ? |
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Bill Owen
Active Collector
Joined: 11 May 2008
Last Visit: 24 Nov 2008
Posts: 54
Location: Decatur IL
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Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:31 am |
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| JohnGaunt wrote: |
Will you make any changes for the published (non-prepub) version? Any changes in content, layout, etc. ? |
No, I don't expect to. Unless of course you have found a big, enormous error! |
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HermitFromPluto
JG Valuation Board
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Last Visit: 29 Nov 2008
Posts: 981
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:12 am |
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Rakeesh sah Tarna
Prolific Collector
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Last Visit: 04 Dec 2008
Posts: 788
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Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:04 am |
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very incomplete?? says 20 pages not 3 sheets |
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HermitFromPluto
JG Valuation Board
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Last Visit: 29 Nov 2008
Posts: 981
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:23 am |
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Yes, but interesting. It seems to be an incomplete first print, which is one of the very rare items. Not only that the cover print colour seems to be different to what is recorded on the subweb. The winning bid was $8.50. Complete, these can sell for over $100 - I hope someone here won it and can compare with the info on the subweb. |
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HermitFromPluto
JG Valuation Board
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Last Visit: 29 Nov 2008
Posts: 981
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:24 am |
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Bill Owen
Active Collector
Joined: 11 May 2008
Last Visit: 24 Nov 2008
Posts: 54
Location: Decatur IL
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:31 am |
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| HermitFromPluto wrote: | | Yes, but interesting. It seems to be an incomplete first print, which is one of the very rare items. Not only that the cover print colour seems to be different to what is recorded on the subweb. The winning bid was $8.50. Complete, these can sell for over $100 - I hope someone here won it and can compare with the info on the subweb. |
As I remember it (and I'm sure you guys have figured it out), the 1st printing cover was imprinted on a 9x12" white short-end flap envelope. Then the 2nd printing cover had dropped the envelope and was a loose sheet inside a heat-sealed bag... and with a product number added lower right.
The object may have been partly to make it less expensive but primarily so the buyer could see one of the sheets through the back of the bag.
Changing to a booklet later accomplished this visibility ideally and gave a lot more value (lots more pages i.e. repetition of key To Hit charts players would use) without requiring the buyer to xerox some of the charts for players (which was quite expensive then--I had to walk about 4 blocks to pay 25 cents to use the xerox machine at Walgreens then and this was when my job a the travel agency was paying about $1.50/hour! |
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Blackmoor
Valuation Board
Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Last Visit: 04 Dec 2008
Posts: 2095
Location: Canada
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Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:29 pm |
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Just read mine, great book about the early days. Very easy to read. I really liked it. Thanks for sharing Bill |
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