bombadil wrote:I have to admit, it did occur to me. That would be a dark turn of events, not necessarily in this case, but in future auctions.
Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:1) How do we really know that this book is actually legit? I say this b/c it would not be entirely impossible to actually rebound a DMG with those MM pages in them. - two sides of same sheet. not so easy except in china.
In this case, the printer printed one side of the sheet with the DMG pages and the other with the Monster Manual pages. When they were cut and bound, alternating pairs of facing pages were thus either DMG or MM pages.
Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:- two sides of same sheet. not so easy except in china.
bombadil wrote:Yeah, I've been racking (or wracking) my brain trying to remember who that was...For some reason Paul keeps coming to mind, but I don't think it was him. How about the guy who sold his ST1 privately on the site about 1 1/2 years ago?
bclarkie wrote:Well, I just bumped all the pertinent threads that I could find on the subject. I didn't read through all of them though. Perhaps if its not listed in any of those threads, Paul may remember himself as he is the one who did all the research on the 1st print DMG.
bclarkie wrote:Oh and I hate to break it everyone, but 2 extremely important things:1) How do we really know that this book is actually legit? I say this b/c it would not be entirely impossible to actually rebound a DMG with those MM pages in them. 2) Secondly and even more importantly, a price like this is certainly going to potentially encourage others to at least attempt to do so.Something to think about....