FoulFoot wrote:Unfortunately for collectors, if we accept this sequence as correct (which it would appear to be), a True 1st print is effectively worthless -- there's simply too many of them still in circulation. A 2nd print with the MM pages, or a 3rd print scarred cover, would be worth more, since they're significantly rarer -- but since they're later printings, the nostalgia factor is diminished, reducing their value, too. But that's the way these things go sometimes.
harami2000 wrote:FoulFoot wrote:Unfortunately for collectors, if we accept this sequence as correct (which it would appear to be), a True 1st print is effectively worthless -- there's simply too many of them still in circulation. A 2nd print with the MM pages, or a 3rd print scarred cover, would be worth more, since they're significantly rarer -- but since they're later printings, the nostalgia factor is diminished, reducing their value, too. But that's the way these things go sometimes.Was under the impression you said "let the marketplace dictate the price", or somesuch, Scott? i.e. that you'd only utilise eBay realisations, rather than set values pre-emptively.Is the above a change of stance, or an attempt to dictate to the marketplace (at least until you've got copies... sorry, jab ^^)?Can't see how the nostalgia factor is diminished greatly (1979 or, erm, 1979); only that the "must have 1st print/number 1" camp tendency (which is even more prevalent nowadays) is gonna be somewhat thrown out of their usual pedantic rhythm.All of Paul's re-evaluations are still in "early days" mode, anyhow.The sequence "feels" much better now, but the relative scarcities are very difficult to gauge.
deimos3428 wrote:Sorry guys wasn't trying to steer this into a "valuation" thread...clearly the market will always dictate the real dollar value, but once the sequence is "Acaeum approved" it's unlikely I'll be picking up any more 1st prints at a cheap price. It's fairly clear that nobody is going to make a fortune on this one, anyway.
bclarkie wrote:*bump*
deimos3428 wrote:What is it we're looking for again? I'm lost.
Xaxaxe wrote:Me, too. It feels like we have four DMG threads all of a sudden active and competing for attention. Not that that is necessarily bad, it's just difficult for us ... slower people.
The Collector's Trove wrote:The pasted over end papers is a 2nd Beta.Well we don't know what any of the 3rd's looks like and what is listed as a 4th might be the 3rd Gamma.
deimos3428 wrote:Interesting, and would explain the temporary shift to white endpapers very neatly. However, my 4th doesn't show any obvious signs of being reconstructed.
Assuming it's unrelated for now, any 3rd printing would be a 232-page book with orange flyleaves. In addition, it possesses all the following traits:No ISBN (5th)No pasted-over endpapers/MM pages (2nd Alpha/Beta)No logo on wizard's foot and overflowing banner text (1st)Right? We can get into more detail and subprintings if anyone actually has one. I've only got seven, I'm not about to buy 993 more just to sort out the printings.