NMilty wrote:Nice find for you as well on the Horror on the Orient Express!!

Does anyone know if that box set originally came with factory shrinkwrap?  I saw a copy advertised recently as still in shrink and I wanted to see if it was legit.

I don't know for certain, but it seems likely.  Chaosium's earlier boxed sets were shrinked, so I don't see why that one wouldn't be.

NMilty wrote:Nice find for you as well on the Horror on the Orient Express!!

Does anyone know if that box set originally came with factory shrinkwrap?  I saw a copy advertised recently as still in shrink and I wanted to see if it was legit.

Yes it did come shrinked, used to have one

Bracton wrote:Finally received a few recent acquisitions:

Ah it's you! Wonderfull lot.

Are they in good shape?

It's been a while since I was jazzed about some pick-ups.  It's a nice feeling.

Generally, they're all in excellent or better condition.  In the Valla, someone used some green highlighter on a couple lines on pages 4 and 5.  Otherwise, both the booklet and the maps are very clean, the corners very sharp and the binding tight.  Frankly, except for the highlighting, it's pretty close to near mint.  The Silverdawn booklet is in great shape, though the map has some minor dirt and is a bit torn along the folds.  The Bavenlon is missing its cover (though I have a copy), and the cover on The Plateau is split below the bottom staple.  But all in all, very minor issues.

Ah, pictures.  The wife and two of the kids left yesterday on vacation (oldest son and I are to join them later this week).  She took the cameras with her.  So when we get back, I'll take a few pics and post them.

Bracton wrote:
But only for your scotch glass, right?  

Nah...I drink scotch straight from the bottle.  

Excellent find! The Book of Mars is rather rare in this version on ebay. I don't remember seing a lot of them.

mbassoc2003 wrote:Does the copy of the Book of Mars have the shop/mailing cover? It'll ve an second identical copy of the cover over the top of the card cover, except in paper as opposed to card? Amazing find. I've only seen a few on eBy over the years.

No mailing cover.  I did notice something a bit odd though.  There are four staples in the spine.  Two are of the typical sort you would expect to see in just about any module.  But the other two are thicker and a bit shorter (not quite a half inch in length).  Almost like the manufacturer put two "normal" size staples in and then realized that it wasnt enough to hold the book together but had to use a different size staple because they were out of the other.  

Kingofpain89 wrote:
No mailing cover.  I did notice something a bit odd though.  There are four staples in the spine.  Two are of the typical sort you would expect to see in just about any module.  But the other two are thicker and a bit shorter (not quite a half inch in length).  Almost like the manufacturer put two "normal" size staples in and then realized that it wasnt enough to hold the book together but had to use a different size staple because they were out of the other.  

I'll need to check my copy, but there were originlly two complete cobers stapled one ofver the other (don't recall if there are two sets of staples in mine, but I have both sets of covers intact. The primary cover is card with an impressed grain to the paper. The shop/mailing cover is identical in both colour and appearance, blank on the inside, but is a printed on paper. I suspect the staples are the reminant of the mailing cover, the other staples actually originally binding the book but being hiden by the mailing/shop shelf cover.

You'll also notice the additional chapters that were omitted from the more common white cover FASA repring of the book. That's a really good find, and a cool item to have in your collection, especially at the price you got it at.

Sweet find, David!!!

The Necros and the Hackmasters are beautiful scores.