Hi all, please share your latest acquisitions/buys here. I'm sure many are interested in what people have acquired lately. I'll start off:  Mike's Latest acquisitions: Adversary Games        Acquitaine Alchemist's Abode  Adversary Games        Acquitaine Asphodel Inn  Adversary Games        Acquitaine Sword & Shield  Adversary Games        Acquitaine The Red Book of Nal  Douglas Herring The Book of Swords John Scott Clegg Notnaidagg Robber Headquarters AD&D Play by Mail The Talaran Challenge  AD&D Planescape Sketchbook Wee Warriors Palace of the Vampire Queen Judges Guild Tegel Manor 1st print Judges Guild City State of the Invincible Overlord -1st print  Please share with us what you have bought recently.

6th Printing Dragon Cover Basic Set (w/ original dice - VG) 7th Printing Dragon Cover Basic Set (unpunched chits/dice coupon - NM) 2nd Printing Expert Set (original dice/crayon still in bag - VG+) 4th Printing Players Handbook (NM - real treasure found at used book store) Return to the Keep on the Borderlands AD&D Tomes - Rod of Seven Parts (NM) AD&D Tomes - Axe of the Dwarvish Lords (NM) Against the Giants/Liberation of Geoff (VG)  Paul

Reizla wrote:Kara-Tur boxed set. Box VG, contets NM But well, you know how slow postage from the US to Europe can take... The Kara-Tur set should arraive next week, the others have 2 to 3 weeks to go...

 The Kara-Tur box finally arrived. Thebox is in VG/EX condition, having minor damage on the corners (shelf-wear?) and one corner is major damaged (on an 8 mm part the printing is letting loose of the box). The contents on the other hand has never been used and NM/M. Even the original 2 pages with add are stil in the box   !  I think this is my best deal ever. The box only costed me $42,00 including shipping to The Netherlands...  Alex

Hi Sill Kill Alot. So your the bidder lriotto? Good win on the Jade. Didn't sell as much as the previous one a few years ago.   Pls introduce yourself to the rest of the community in the Introduce yourself Fellow Collectors page.

Hi Len,  Yes I threw in a bid on the last one   He offered me the second one in a private sale for my last bid but like you said with the holidays and all I will have to wait    unless everyone else leaves that one alone that is LOL

I think that my most biggest and treasured purchase in 2002 is a large collection of old gaming magazines: the entire series of Different Worlds, The Adventurer (British short lived gaming magazine), The Gamer, Game News, Adventure Gaming, Pergioco (Italian), War (Italian), various old Dragon magazines (below issue 40), some issues of Nexus and so on. This large lot comes from the personal collection of Giovanni Ingellis, founder of one of the very first Italian companies for the import of games and gaming products from the US and the UK (I think he started his business in 1980 or 1981!). He died of leucemy in 1998 and his company recently went out of business.   When I was informed that another major Italian importer had acquired a 'huge lot' from an unnamed collector, I jumped at the chance and I went to their offices, searching various hours in tens of boxes crammed with stuff. The purchaser's staff had not yet inventored the contents, so I started setting aside the magazines plus other interesting items such as the old Games Workshop's CoC modules. It was hard work, but an incredible experience: I felt like an archeologist searching in some Pharaoh's tomb! And like an archeologist looking for the truth, I discovered who was this nameless collector.   The greatest irony in this is the fact that Giovanni Ingellis really hated me    and he had promised to send me out of business    (I'm still managing my games store, if anyone was interested in knowing it ) and the purchaser of his collection was his main competitor, of course a subject of his displeasure too    . Well, anyway I think that he would be someway pleased for the fact that his magazines will be in my hands - they will be safe and not dispersed   .  There are many other magazines still waiting for a buyer: the entire print run of Wyrm's Footnotes, for example. But I have already spent too much  

Just got a Uk D&D Sticker book on Ebay for $3.00  Cheers, Malcolm

Found some gems yesterday:    - Midkemia Cities, first printing - Balboa Press itmes:  The Complete Warlock, Warlock's Tower  and the best of all:    - a NM punched copy of Lankhmar (1976 TSR boardgame); anyone have a count on the number of pieces?  It even has the original die in it (at least based on the box picture)

Shrinkwrapped copy of the Games Workshop Hex Sheets, with some other stuff, off Ebay.  Cheers, Malcolm