PaulyDragon wrote in Lighter-weight, flexible but rough-covered 6th Print DMG?:A bit more info:The pages are even thinner than the rough-paper stock common to all the later printings (to cut down on production costs), but these thinner pages are SMOOTH! I just noticed that as I made this admittedly rambling and unscripted 8:17 video about this book, which is compared primarily with a regular Sixth Alpha Print, but also a First Print and a Second Beta Print to hopefully make clear the lighter-weight rough-covered 6th Print I have is possibly an anomaly with a logical backstory that has to be out there somewhere. (The parts when I say "Second Alpha Print" are actually "Second Beta Print" . . . sorry about that!)youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=uCIUX ... CIUXEsMyW0
MadCatUSA wrote in Lighter-weight, flexible but rough-covered 6th Print DMG?:PaulyDragon wrote in Lighter-weight, flexible but rough-covered 6th Print DMG?:A bit more info:The pages are even thinner than the rough-paper stock common to all the later printings (to cut down on production costs), but these thinner pages are SMOOTH! I just noticed that as I made this admittedly rambling and unscripted 8:17 video about this book, which is compared primarily with a regular Sixth Alpha Print, but also a First Print and a Second Beta Print to hopefully make clear the lighter-weight rough-covered 6th Print I have is possibly an anomaly with a logical backstory that has to be out there somewhere. (The parts when I say "Second Alpha Print" are actually "Second Beta Print" . . . sorry about that!)youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=uCIUX ... CIUXEsMyW0Speculation only:1. It's a re-bind. Someone with the money to pay to have an old, worn version of a beloved book rebound professionally (or, did it themselves as a hobby/profession.)2. It's a bootleg. VERY well done, but a bootleg. Someone obviously put some effort into this thing.
PaulyDragon wrote in Lighter-weight, flexible but rough-covered 6th Print DMG?:Three final photos, unless more are needed.
Mister Yuk wrote in Lighter-weight, flexible but rough-covered 6th Print DMG?:PaulyDragon wrote in Lighter-weight, flexible but rough-covered 6th Print DMG?:Three final photos, unless more are needed.Attachment:IMAG9557.jpgI looked at a couple of DMGs on eBay and saw several examples with the ISBN closer to the edge and a rough cover (pretty much all I could do from the pictures typically presented). So, your copy may not be unique at least.Oddly enough I saw a 6th Alpha with the same characteristics as your's also (ISBN closer to edge and rough cover). I'm liking the idea that there was either a second Printer with their own print cylinders (with a tighter text block). It would make sense due to the surge in popularity during this printing. Or the same Printer utilizing different Stock and Cylinders (to cut production costs?).
FoulFoot wrote in How do you tell a 2nd print S1 from a 7th?:Most likely there were dozens of actual printings, but so far, we've only be able to differentiate seven. :) Many prints may have been identical, since nothing needed to be changed.If the sole difference in two prints is the placement of the ISBN, I'm likely to simply designate it as two versions of the Second print. They were of course two separate printings, but it often gets to be ridiculous in shifting the whole sequence for such minor details (i.e., do you also designate a new printing if the size changes by a tenth of an inch? I've been down that road, and it isn't pretty). So, we'll have to see.Foul
Agent Cooper wrote in Lighter-weight, flexible but rough-covered 6th Print DMG?:Someday ---- some glorious day ---- one of these posts is going to reveal that my virtually worthless 9th print DMG is actually a super rare 9.3 Gamma-Delta Print, one of only a handful of known copies personally bound and sewn by Gary Gygax during the little known Wisconsin printing press strike of 1986, and is now worth thousands of dollars!