bombadil wrote:It's really the one on the right that I'm excited about True 1st. But the Eldritch is also a 1st printing.
The Collector's Trove wrote:Howdy Stephen,Heh that's funny! I have that exact picture in my email files! Apparently we were bidding blind against each other on that same set! If I'd know it was you I'd have backed off. I was bidding out of pure speculation and research. Sorry for driving it up. I didn't go more on it because it was a vertical woodgrain, late 1975 Tractics box with 1st print vol. 1 and 2 booklets and a 2nd print vol. 3. However, I am now regretting it because the set (your set now) was the set that made me finally decide the vertical woodgrain, no-label sets were put together between April and September of 1975 in Tractics boxes.<clip>Futures Bright,Paul
The Collector's Trove wrote:Didn't someone also mention recently they saw a TSR ad in a catalog about being able to buy volume's 1 & 2 as a special combined offer? That might indicate when the vol. 3 stock intially ran out.
Regarding the above. Does anyone have the images of the woodgrain with the original sales receipt set that sold just this year to addermcone? Perhaps addermcone himself could provide images? Did it have a 1st print cover stock vol. 3?
AdderMcOne wrote:Loved getting this one today. ** expired/removed eBay auction **Apart from being UK basic set (thicker box), also contained 1st print B2, Mint copies of F1002 Dungeon Geomorphs (uncut), and Monster & Treasure Assortment Set One (1st print).
Beyondthebreach wrote:cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& ... 0050728200Damn you Clarkie! For $199 I just had to price it out real (REAL) quick and give GDQ and a few others a careful look. Shouldn't have wasted those 45 seconds. Oh well, I think there's is a lot of 92 mods that might soon get lost in an M-bag shipment. Suppose I should try to help the guy out on that one.
Beyondthebreach wrote:Oddly enough, in all these years I've never had a GDQ . . . Not one. Strange.
bclarkie wrote:Great now I feel bad. If you want we can work out a trade or something or perhaps even I can ship it to you so you can have a read through and then just ship it back to me when you are done.