So there were a few RJK items recently on sale, and I know that there are a few different sets of releases for said items using this link as a guideline:

Canonfire! - A Partial, Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Robert J. Kuntz

Specifically for these three items [Tower of Blood, Cairn of the Skeleton King, and The Original Bottle City], I'd like to know just what kind of print runs are out there (author's copies, runic, magic, super-secret, etc.   ).

Maybe if Alan could chime in here that would be great.

As above, Cairn of the Skeleton King and Tower of Blood both had an official 'Runic' issue of 26 copies each, accompanied by a certificate lettered A-Z, and as I recall, an official first release of 350 numbered copies, again accompanied by a numbered certificate. Cairn of the Skeleton King was subsequently released again as a Second Printing, unnumbered/certificated on unknown quantity. Tower of Blood to my knowledge has not been reprinted, but I may be wrong.

Both first print runs obviously may well have had additional undisclosed 'authors copies' and an educated guess (although I may be blissfully ignorant here) would be that an initial run of 400 copies was ordered, 350 numbered, 26 runic, and the balance, minus any snafus/packing/printing errors gives you your balance of 'undocumented' copies.

Also, as above, all first printing copies of the first two products are identical, the only physical difference being the accompanying certificate. This has been reflected in the balancing out of perceived 'value' over time, with Runics being sold an no real great premium over numbered copies. At least with Tower of Blood the certificate was professionally laid out and printed, whereas with Cairn of the Skeleton King the certificate was a home printer job.

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Now, with Bottle City you have two official releases (although a reprint is also on the way I believe). There is a 'Collectors Edition' retailing at $150 with a single piece poster map and 12 (I believe) sheets of original notes (54 copies maybe?), and the more humble regular release, two piece map, no notes. It should again be noted that the all copies of the physical book are identical, and that they are all marked as Collectors Editions $150, and the only physical difference is the map, notes, and what is written in the white box on the back cover of the module.

Again a standard print run of 350 copies IIRC,(although I may be corrected here), but this time you also have 10 numbered 'Authors Copies', an undocumented quantity of unnumbered 'Authors Copies', at least one copy I have seen with no designation on the back cover at all, the box being blank, and at least 5 copies that I know of marked as 'Comp Copy'.

Add to this, at least two 'official copies' of the original manuscript and map, one of which was used to create the original scanned map image, two original masters of the scanning company's CD, a copy of the master CD I sent to RJK, and the manuscript itself (currently residing in Australia?) and that about gives you a complete picture of what's out there for those.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but hope it helped.

Thunderdave wrote in RJK / PPP  Print run(s) question...:Just a minor point, I thought the runic copies were 1-26 marked A to Z and the numbered copies therefore started at #27?

Not with ToB. I just sold Numbered Copy #2.
I think they all started at #1.

I just spoke with Rob about print run sizes, will have to pull up my notes and get back to you tomorrow.

350 copies of Tower of Blood (1st print):
Lord of the Green Dragons: Tower of Blood 2nd Printing

Bottle City info is less concrete...

second-hand assertion of a 500 copy print run:
Re: RJK-1 The Original Bottle City

51 (or 53) of those were Limited Editions:
update on PPP's The Original Bottle City(TM)
RJK's Bottle City and The Living Room adventures • Page 5 • Collecting General •  The Acaeum
Interesting Items Formerly on eBay • Page 99 • Collecting General •  The Acaeum

(If I'm reading the last link correctly, there might have been as many as 553 copies of Bottle City.)

Oh, and IIRC the reprinted Cairn and Tower copies have original printing covers, since Rob had over-printed those relative to the booklets.  That may have been why only 60 copies of Cairn were reprinted---that may have been all of the remaining cover stock that Rob had left, after damaged copies were taken care of.

Black Blade will be reprinting Cairn and Tower as well, but we don't have a definite schedule for that yet (we'll likely have to decide between reprinting them in time for NTX vs. printing some new products).