I recently bought a copy of the 2nd edition (1977) of the Manual of Aurania from Noble Knight. I bought their one non-shrinked copy as I wanted to look at the contents and didn't want to destroy shrink. However, the pages of this copy are all loose - staples have been removed - and kind of weirdly formatted (several sheets are single sided and the rest are double sided), so I wanted to make sure I have all of the pages. Pages #3-17 seem to be in order based on the contents so I'm mostly concerned if pages #1 and 2 are correct or should be double-sided.

There are 17 sheets:

The first two and last are single-sided:
#1 - Introduction (single sided sheet)
#2 - Illustration (single sided sheet) - Cleric of Thor confronting a Wraith
#17 - Weird Trips & Rip-Offs continued + illustration of Nuckalee

The remaining pages are double-sided (front/back)
#3 - Cleric variants/Beorning class, tiny Dragon pic
#4 - Sidhe class/Samurai class
#5 - Samurai cont/Basadae,Leprechaun class
#6 - Leprechauns cont inc pic/Shape-Shifter class
#7 - Shape-Shifters Cont/Reincarnation Charts
#8 - Giant Types/cont
#9 - Giant Types cont inc pic of "4 Armed Horror"/Trolls
#10 - Trolls cont inc pic/Undead
#11 - Undead cont/Undead cont inc pic of "Apparition"
#12 - Dragons/Dragons cont
#13 - Dragons cont/Dragons cont inc pic
#14 - Demons/Demons cont inc pic of "Demon of the Netherdepths"
#15-17 - Weird Trips and Rip-offs/cont

Interesting stuff. Contents are all for OD&D. Overall, the formatting and production quality is similar to Alarums & Excursions issues from the time period.

This is one of those small press products that is pretty good old school bang for your buck - mainly because there are lots of copies available.

yes Zenopus, pages 1,2 & 17 are single-sided and the rest double-sided in a 2nd print manual of aurania.

I think of Aurania as a poor man's Nimolee.

Anyone know the story behind the NK shrink-wrapped copies?  I have one from Amandadub, with discolouration along the edge consistent with long-term shelf storage... the NK version looks identical with the same fade-away of the black on the cover, but is otherwise brand-spanking new.  Thoughts?

Thunderdave wrote in Manual of Aurania - contents:Anyone know the story behind the NK shrink-wrapped copies?  I have one from Amandadub, with discolouration along the edge consistent with long-term shelf storage... the NK version looks identical with the same fade-away of the black on the cover, but is otherwise brand-spanking new.  Thoughts?

There's some more info on the printings from Wagner in this other Acaeum thread. The shrinkwrapped copies may have resulted from a particular distributor/retailer.

Never heard of this, very interesting thanks

Hello, my name is Robert Singh, I am Hugh Singh's son, and I need to get a hold of Mr. Wagner about the Manual of Aurania,  if anyone can help me get in touch with Mr. Wagner I would appreciate it.

Doesn't owe anyone I know any money,  my father is trying to get in touch with him, and we are working on a project that we would like to talk with Mr. Wagner about.