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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:32 am 
 

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beyondthebreach wrote:Your reasoning is sound and I would expect the foldered version to sell for more at auction . . . ideally ongoing valuations will determine how collector's feel about this and if the "foldered" version, ultimately proves the more valuable.

For a long time we've been stuck with the unfoldered version as the official "first print" despite several dissenting voices in previous discussions, PMs and emails.
The near-blanket insistence on not valuing a "second print"/perceived "second print" higher than the "first" has also been unhelpful. (Scott's comment about "collecting mystique" (paraphr.) and all that jazz...).

Ian followed the "status quo" and got that one in the neck.


(aside: "Ongoing valuations" would of course now follow the false premise which led Ian (and many others) to bid so high... Has become a self-fulfilling prophesy, there.
The GenCon auctions would have been a better indication, perhaps. $275 was their limit and people there weren't short of a few dollars).


I am a little confused as to what criteria was used to establish the printing order in the first place on PotVQ. To me it would seem to be the priniting with the black folder should be the first printing based on what has been discussed here as well as other factors. Even on the afterglow site (and discounting the printing he owns that is spiral bound he claims as the first print) that is attached to Acaeum, seems to acknowledge the black folder version is the earlier version:

Second Edition. Rhea Shelly sent me this description:
The cover (also courtesy Rhea Shelley and a good hour of playing with my image processing software) is an all black folder with red letters that say "Dungeon Masters Kit - Number 1 Palace of the Vampire Queen". The Palace of the... part is written in all capital gothic type letters. There is a small drawing of the left half of a tower (cut vertically) with a mountain in the back ground (left side only). All of this is done in the same red as the letters. The back of the folder is blank. It's on white loose leaf paper, except for the contents sheet, which is yellow. The paper size is 8 1/2 x 11. It says "1st Printing June 1976, Copyright June 1976" on a piece of paper taped to the inside of the folder.
Third Edition. Still labeled "First Printing", this one is a number of loose pages in a plastic bag. Compared with the first edition, there are a few differences - first, it has the player's and GM's maps put together on five pages (front side GM's, back side player's maps of the five levels) whereas the first edition had the maps printed on one side of the paper only. Second, there is an additional cover page with the title and a crude drawing on it. The page with the printing and distribution information is the same as in edition one.


To me it makes a lot more sense that the original printing would be included in the black folder. I have a sneaking suspicion that the second printing(if you want to even consider it that) was probably released at the same time or immediately after the black folder version was produced, as there probably more actual interior pages printed than the outside folders. The printer, rather than just dispose of the extra pages, released those as well, and in needing an effective vehicle to hold them, distributed them in the zip lock bags. IMO from a printing perspective, it would make more sense to print the extra interior pages than the outside covers due to the fact that the interior pages are much more likely to be ruined in the packing process than the more durable outside cardboard covers. Also, from an expense perspective, it would also make sense particuarly to a small printing/distributing company to sell any extras that they had left as well rather than just sh*t can the extra material.
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:07 am 
 

If the 'first' and 'second' prints of PoVQ were printed at the same time, surely they are both first edition prints?

We don't say Jade Hare first print and Jade Hare second print.

Surely what we have here is 'first edition with folder' and 'first edition without folder'?

Why is there an arguement here about the order in which these were printed. I'm sure my Jade Hare came off the presses before some of those owned by some of the collectors here, and I'm sure it came off the press after some of those. But we're talking about a single print run here.

Why the need for a priority of one over another? Why a need to value one over another?

They should both be considered first edition copies, with and without folder.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:11 am 
 

That is exactly what happened, clarkie. I went thru this in a thread last year (or maybe 2 years ago). The 2nd printing is actually the unfoldered version with the yellow cover sheet, and the booklets are third and fourth respectively. The bagged "1st printings" were leftovers.
I spoke with a gentleman long ago who distinctly remembers wanting to buy PoVQ when it came out, and not having the $$. When he had saved up enough and went back to the same store he always went to, the foldered version was gone, and he got a bagged copy. He recalled it well, according to him, because he thought the folder was neat, and the store owner told him they didn't have any more folder versions, they had bagged, and that they couldn't get foldered ones anymore. He said they had multiples copies there (2 I think, but I am not positive), and he bought one. I did see pictures of his copy, and he had no reason to lie, I did not even bring up the subject of 1st/2nd prints. I just mentioned to him that I had a PoVQ. He asked if it had a folder, I said yes, and that was when he told me.
Soooooooooooooooo.......... that is why I am 100% sure of the chronology.
The amusing thing is, the 2nd print (the REAL 2nd print) with the yellow cover sheet is insanely rare compared to the foldered version. I have seen 1, the one that sold last year. Were I still collecting multiple printings, I would have gladly slung $700 at it. Even the booklets do not come up very often.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:19 am 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote:If the 'first' and 'second' prints of PoVQ were printed at the same time, surely they are both first edition prints?

Surely what we have here is 'first edition with folder' and 'first edition without folder'?.


That was the point in my post. Personally, I don't think that there were 2 different print runs concerning these, because if there was, there is clearly a printing error.
Third Edition. Still labeled "First Printing"


I think the plastic bag version is clearly extras that TSR was able to pull together and distrute without the folders. Nothing else would make any sense.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:28 am 
 

Deadlord36 wrote:That is exactly what happened, clarkie. I went thru this in a thread last year (or maybe 2 years ago). The 2nd printing is actually the unfoldered version with the yellow cover sheet, and the booklets are third and fourth respectively. The bagged "1st printings" were leftovers.
I spoke with a gentleman long ago who distinctly remembers wanting to buy PoVQ when it came out, and not having the $$. When he had saved up enough and went back to the same store he always went to, the foldered version was gone, and he got a bagged copy. He recalled it well, according to him, because he thought the folder was neat, and the store owner told him they didn't have any more folder versions, they had bagged, and that they couldn't get foldered ones anymore. He said they had multiples copies there (2 I think, but I am not positive), and he bought one. I did see pictures of his copy, and he had no reason to lie, I did not even bring up the subject of 1st/2nd prints. I just mentioned to him that I had a PoVQ. He asked if it had a folder, I said yes, and that was when he told me.
Soooooooooooooooo.......... that is why I am 100% sure of the chronology.



Then the real question is the why are we still sticking to the "other" chronology? It seems to me that there is a heck of a lot more evidence supporting the black folder/first distribution, plastic bag/second distribution theory and considering that total lack of evidence that I have seen for the "other" chronology, why the resistance to change :?: :!:


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:50 am 
 

If you label them first distribution, second distribution etc. you devalue anything that you have not labelled 'first distribution'. You are assigning preference and priority to an indivitual print run.

If you label them 'first edition with cover' and 'first edition without cover' and you do not assign a chronology to it, then you do not devalue the items.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:03 am 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote:If you label them first distribution, second distribution etc. you devalue anything that you have not labelled 'first distribution'. You are assigning preference and priority to an indivitual print run.

If you label them 'first edition with cover' and 'first edition without cover' and you do not assign a chronology to it, then you do not devalue the items.


Not necessarily, I think the Rarity factor would then figure into total value as well. With that in mind though, the largest problem that the plastic bag version brings, has already been stated here "why don't I just throw away the cardboard cover and say its a plastic bag version?". There doesn't seem to be any hard evidence either way to support exactly when each version was released(be it at the same time or not), so in the end it may be best to simply list both as 1st prints with/without cover.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:26 am 
 

bclarkie wrote:..... in the end it may be best to simply list both as 1st prints with/without cover.


So, if you have a 'first print with folder' and 'first print without folder', is the edition with the yellow drawn cover (presently a third edition' actually the second print run? The expence of the black folder would explain the need for the yellow drawn cover on a subsequent printing.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:29 am 
 

get one of both and then you have the best of both worlds, no matter what anyone decides? :)

thing is, lets be honest, if EITHER of them were up for grabs, everyone and then some would still go for them anyways, wouldnt they?

in the end, unless you have cold, hard fact. ie someone who has clear knowledge of "HOW" the print runs happened (as there is no written evidence of print or order), whatever gets "decided" is simply conjecture surely?

anyway, not trying to stir anything up.....promise!  :?


mbassoc2003 wrote:If the 'first' and 'second' prints of PoVQ were printed at the same time, surely they are both first edition prints?

We don't say Jade Hare first print and Jade Hare second print.

Surely what we have here is 'first edition with folder' and 'first edition without folder'?

Why is there an arguement here about the order in which these were printed. I'm sure my Jade Hare came off the presses before some of those owned by some of the collectors here, and I'm sure it came off the press after some of those. But we're talking about a single print run here.

Why the need for a priority of one over another? Why a need to value one over another?

They should both be considered first edition copies, with and without folder.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:48 am 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote:So, if you have a 'first print with folder' and 'first print without folder', is the edition with the yellow drawn cover (presently a third edition' actually the second print run? The expence of the black folder would explain the need for the yellow drawn cover on a subsequent printing.


That would be my take on it. I just can't see without being able to factually determine release date, that we can have it listed any other way. Other than how they were actually distruted (black cover/plastic bag), from what I can tell, there is no discernable differences between the 2. Now with the current "third printing" there are some definte discenrable printing differences, which to me shows true proof of what would be a second and completely seperate printing. So with that, then yes I would also agree that with the modification to what should be the now first print w/cover or first print w/o cover , that now the currently listed 3rd print would be moved into a second print classification.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:34 pm 
 

Myself, I would not want a "bagged" version. It is, to me, no different than a coverless Jade Hare. Worth a bit, but not too much.
My chronology does and always has started with the black folder. NO proof whatsoever has been put forth to sustain the baged version being first, and I have personally been given proof to my satisfaction that the foldered was first. That to me makes a bagged version next to useless.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:05 pm 
 

How does one then explain the double sided printing vs. single sided printing issues. Maybe the double sided copies are genuine, and single sided copies were copies that hobby shops ran off themselves at local copy shops?

There are too many unknowns here to make blanket statements as to chronology and value, as the same unknowns could be said to surround genuine copy versus counterfeit copy. Printing was not very complexed in those days, and the only genuine articles that are known to exist in the first edition are the 17 printed pages and the black folder itself. Any variation there of is questionable.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:49 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote:How does one then explain the double sided printing vs. single sided printing issues. Maybe the double sided copies are genuine, and single sided copies were copies that hobby shops ran off themselves at local copy shops?

Ouch...
Say "thank you" for that suggestion, Frank. (ditto, Mike <invincible>). ;)

No, they're sounding genuine enough (Tadashi having a copy to sell reassured me of that to quite a degree) but understanding the reasons for that difference seems to be as difficult as pinning values on any version, even if it's in NM condition.
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A bagged version might also be "next to useless" for some people, but I know many others who would pounce at the opportunity.

And that the ziploc version might have been sold slightly cheaper locally or at cons makes almost as much sense as the folders running out (or both reasons, even).

mbassoc2003 wrote:There are too many unknowns here to make blanket statements as to chronology and value, as the same unknowns could be said to surround genuine copy versus counterfeit copy.

*nods*. The folder is a "nice to have" in terms of being more difficult to counterfeit (or if it had been, many more copies might have been seen), but beyond that is a pretty large gray area all-round.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:41 pm 
 

I know of another person who has a single-sided copy. Perhaps we should tally up the totals of the single and double. Perhaps they ran off single-sided ones first, and thought that they didn't fit as well in the folder as doubles. There are a million theories, but the only thing I have ever found hard evidence to support is the folder being a 1st print.
Regardless of what opinions are, there should certainly be no distinction printwise between the two. It would be like saying the coverless Jade Hare was a 1st print, and the covered one a 2nd.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:46 pm 
 

I don't have a black folder copy of PoVQ, but I'd be interested to see what would happen....

Suppose you put PoVQ up on eBay as near mint first print without the cover, and you put the black folder up as a single item at the same time.

I wonder if you'd net a bigger return than selling it on it's own?

Haw about putting your's up, David? I'll bid on the folder. :D


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:16 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote:Haw about putting your's up, David? I'll bid on the folder. :D

Heh, heh. Stop trying to cheer me up, Ian! :lol:

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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:28 pm 
 

Deadlord36 wrote:I know of another person who has a single-sided copy. Perhaps we should tally up the totals of the single and double. Perhaps they ran off single-sided ones first, and thought that they didn't fit as well in the folder as doubles. There are a million theories, but the only thing I have ever found hard evidence to support is the folder being a 1st print.

*nods*. The folder fit one sounded good as a possible... or else to save time at the end of the run rather than manual duplexing... etc., etc.
Yeah, myriad reasons and speculations.

Are there any single sided copies known for certain to have been purchased first-hand in ziploc?

Deadlord36 wrote:Regardless of what opinions are, there should certainly be no distinction printwise between the two. It would be like saying the coverless Jade Hare was a 1st print, and the covered one a 2nd.

I'll buy that first sentence. :)
The second is kinda superfluous, if the cover was never officially released/distributed to the public. (Although even if that makes it outwith the official scope of The Acaeum, I don't think anyone's going to delete the listing...).

  

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Post Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:50 pm 
 

harami2000 wrote:(Especially when you've got your own wounds to lick...) :?


You mean my overspend on the Burnie's PoVQ? Or something else?


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