For the true cultist:

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Something for anyone who collects foreign non-TSR D&D. There are nine of these modules in total, pretty similar to the stuff coming out of the UK at the time in feel, cartography, etc. But they're pretty rare. I see maybe one or two copies cropping up a year. A fair price too.

Nine as in nine different ones, not nine modules printed, right?

Yes print runs was low (around 200-300 copies). Le Dernier Cercle modules were French generic modules with one of the highest run among all French generic modules.
There is several publishers like this one:
- AMJ with 8 modules (4 in A5 format, 4 in A4 format).
- Nouvelles Editions Fantastiques (NEF), with 9 modules (some are very rare, perhaps less than 30-40 copies), 2 are in similar quality to Dernier cercle.
- Editions du Dragon Ludique with 2 modules (very rares too), similar in quality to Dernier cercle.
- Nergal with two modules, similar in quality to Dernier cercle.
Some others (Etoile du Sud, Epopée F-M, Thierry Lacoste, Polyèdre, Schizoïde). Less than 5 copies of each module made by these publishers still exist.
Most of them were sold locally or by mail order.

I have an old picture with some of them.

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Decent prices

I know it'd not be labeled interesting and it is an italian product, but this deserves a 5 mintues glory here:


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Translated it'd be "Battlecows - Fights between armored cows"

Ciaooo

I never realized that there is a version of Galloway's Fantasy Wargaming with the same size of the !e hardbacks!

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My copy is definitely smaller that this version... Is there anywhere i can understand the different printings/editions?

1) 1981 Patrick Stephens (UK hardcover printing, larger than digest-sized but shorter than 11" tall)
2) 1982 hardcover
3) 1982 book club printing (digest sized)
4) 1984 hardcover (2nd printing of the 1982 hardcover)

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I think the first 3 had paper dustjackets but the 4) the image is printed right on the hardcover cover - is that correct?

I don't remember ever seeing a dust jacket on #2 or #4 in stores (which both have the the image on the cover, I think), but #3 has a dust jacket & a plain cover underneath.

What distinguishes #2 from #4? I don't see a printing notation in my copy.

Checking the title page gave me the chance to notice that someone named "Nick Lowe" is among the contributors, or was at least a copyright holder. The only previous reference to someone of the name on the Acaeum was Badmike mentioning the singer in a 2008 post. If it really is the singer, then these lyrics were prophecy regarding the quality of the Fantasy Wargaming book:

"Hey long distance, it's a rock and roll romance
CBS is gonna pay a great big advance
Hey Atlantic, come on take a chance
Arista say they love it but the kids can't dance to it

They cut another record, it never was a hit
Someone in the newspaper said it was s***
The drummer is a bookie, the singer is a w****
The bass player's selling clothes he never would have wore"