yeah, i'm anxious to see how bad the foxing is.  if it's pretty bad i might put some pictures up to see if anyone has any recommendations..

                                                       -dave

Sure, nobody apologize for out-bidding the lowly grodog  

ABEbooks has a definition of:  "Foxed, Foxing-[image] Brown spotting of the paper caused by a chemical reaction, generally found in 19th century books, particularly in steel engravings of the period."  They also have an image of foxing at AbeBooks: Book Collecting Guide - AbeBooks' Glossary of Book Terms

Foxing, as defined by Stanford...:  Conservation OnLine

...and by the OED:  4. trans. To discolour (the leaves of a book). See FOXED ppl. a. and from FOXED:

3. Of the leaves of books, also of timber; Discoloured by decay; stained with brownish-yellow spots.

 1847 HALLIWELL s.v., Timber is said to be foxed, when it becomes discoloured in consequence of incipient decay. Warw. 1848 HARE Guesses Ser. II. 335 A torn or foxt and dog's-eared volume. 1885 A. DOBSON At Sign Lyre 83 The Burton I bought for a florin, And the Rabelais foxed and flea'd.

Star Probe from TSR 1978 :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3170002949

Web of Gold boardgame from TSR :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3170308593

Hmmmm

Here's a rare one :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3170198711
http://i19.ebayimg.com/02/i/01/2f/ab/9f_1_s.JPG

It's an auction for a 5th print original box set plus supplements but it
also has something called "The Book of Monsters" by Phil Edgren.
I can find only 2 references to this on the net - on afterglow's list and
that weird french site abcdaire.

It's the 1976 version by Little Soldier Games rather than the 1978
edition published by Gamescience.

Nice buy Chromatic. I figured it would be you or Adam to win the 10th Anniversary Combo.

The Book of Monsters that I own has a different cover, but the same copyright date. It was also published by Little Soldier. Mine also doesn't state a printing. I wonder which is the first print? BTW Nev, I bought it off of eBay Australia for $19.50. I was expecting to see you bid.

Hah. I often forget to check the australian ebay.

I have a separate sieve set up for it (because there's stuff I'd
be willing to buy from oz that I wouldn't from the US so
I have totally different trash words).

BTW To anyone who's updated to 1.3.4 can you tell me if the View links
have stopped working for you? I made a change so they would work
on Mac OS X but seemed to have stuffed it for some windows users.
I've done a new beta 1.3.5 which does a check for your OS.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEBDW:IT

I wasn't surprised to be outbid, but I was surprised that someone here didn't nab this one

Yeah. I had emailed the seller to get a confirmation about Jade Hare; it was apparently in excellent shape, without the cover.