I guess this is a request for some assistance.

I am actually starting to collect items from a long interest of mine.  Up till now I have bought items that I thought would be interesting to me or I knew from years past that I wanted to have in my possession.  Now I am starting to look at items I'm perhaps not familiar with or items I don't really know much about and I would like to have more information.

I am interested in AD&D first edition, 2nd edition, and Basic D&D and the stuff that came out before first edition.  I know that at this time, my interest is more in items of excellent to near mint.  As I want to be able to read them and enjoy them, shrink wrapped items would be wasted on me.

I've gotten a couple items that I never saw back in the late 70s early 80s that I have enjoyed reading and am looking to finding more of these and filling out my collection of these items.  

Here lies my issue.  I have gone looking for info on these items to try to make a priority list/wish list.  However, I am not sure that I have found a complete list of products and descriptions.  The module list here is very good, but it doesn't list everything.  I have a copy of the TSR product list, but I can't tell which items are 1st edition, which are 2nd edition etc.

I was wondering what resources you folks use to identify the products.  I would love to see some description of items other than titles, but I guess I would be most interested in trying to figure out what is Basic D&D, AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e and the early items (though I think this site covered the early items quite well).

Thanks for the help ahead of time.

The link guerret posted is the one I most frequently use, as it often has details about the actual item.  You might also want to check out these sites:

http://www.rpggateway.com/tsrlist/docfiles.html
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/dreadwood/ ... srprod.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~phammer/dndlist0.html

Now that is an interesting question. I've never used that link before. I've never needed to, which is what makes the question interesting. I guess I know most of the TSR products well enough to know by looking at an item what edition it is.
Nice. I have no damn life, it's official.

TSR Archive

http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/index.htm

not a bad resource.

its not Matthias doing it...

Hmmm, somehow I've missed that in Ian's sig.  Thanks for the pointers everyone

grodog wrote:Wow, I had no idea that Matthias had a new (?) site; how long has this domain been around?

Would never have thought that anyone might mistake the two, Allan...

Personally, I still can't see why there's a perceived need to freeload off Matthias's name/reputation, rather than create something from scratch that would earn reputation on its own merits.