Unfortunately, an unexpected $4000 dentist bill means I may have to sell some of my treasures.  Unfortunately, there are quite a few where I have no idea of current value.

Does anyone know what the old Computer Generated Solitaire Dungeons from Flying Buffalo go for nowadays?  The one I'd be selling is in what I'd call fair to good condition--a little corner wear and some discoloration on the cover, and the staples have significant rust.  However, the pages are clean and the ink is still nice and dark (which is saying something, given that it's dot-matrix printed!)

Any advice will be appreciated.  Thanks!

Your copy of Dinky Dungeons might be worth the most in your collection - depending on how much stuff you have.

Yes, only a few people are really collecting T&T,sadly, and it is very very hard to get accurate informations about printings.
T&T is one of the more obscure RPGs for printing history. I have a lot of questions without answers for your friend

lokiwookie wrote:Yes, only a few people are really collecting T&T,sadly, and it is very very hard to get accurate informations about printings.
T&T is one of the more obscure RPGs for printing history

What sort of price and availability are original T&T rules sets, just out of interest?

> Others are uncommon, but never sold for high prices (as UK editions).



Rare, but rarely over $40-50, yes.



> I recently got a excellent copy of the 2nd ed. for $65. It is one of the rarest T&T items though. I expected it would go for much more (in the $150 range)

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Ah... I forgot to check who won that one, sorry.

It took long enough to get Marc to list that as a 2nd rather than a 1st, but he still declined to check for marks since the 2nd and 3rd were staple bound not comb bound (compare with Buffalo Castle, for example). I was tempted to outbid and then get that refunded if it was clear enough that it had been mutilated but decided that was more hassle than it was worth. Still good for that $, either way, as the only fine 2nd before went for $225-250: the other couple had notable faults.



> I think that only the 1st ed. could go over $100 (IIRC one has been sold to TFM for a lot of money, around $300?)



Try a lot more... and it wasn't, of course.

lokiwookie wrote:NKG has one for sale for $85 but it is (as usual) overpriced. $50 would be more appropriate in VG condition.
If your copy is only in fair to good condition, maybe more in the $30-40 range. But on ebay who knows, perhaps more...

Yep; there or thereabouts, I'd've thought.

> Do you own a 2rd ed. staple bound?

Yes (and Bill made me pay through the nose!). Every 2nd seen thus far has been stapled and I'll still need convincing that two separate prints is the explanation for that /specifically/ given that the 3rd was also released staple bound and the binding chronology matches Buffalo Castle, etc., neatly without having to explain why they might've comb bound just /one/ copy (seen thus far), then gone back to staples again. The staples were only small but in a pain-in-the-neck position to try to open the book for use.
I was working on the basis it would require two copies alongside each other to compare definitively, rather than from scans, so good luck with the next one that comes up, too!

> My high bid was $150 but I was afraid to be outbid (I firstly offered around $200 for this copy before there was any bid but Marc finally relisted it after changing 1st to 2nd ed and someone bid on it).

*nods* Had thought relisting rather than just adding the correction text might not be a good idea but left that to him as I'd already spent enough time advising and querying on other sales he was posting for a third party.

> I am wondering how many copies of 1st to 3rd ed. still exist.

Not many.

> Yeah, around $1000? I remember a post where TFM warned us about the seller (the man of Outlaw press isn't he?) who sold photocopies instead of original.

I'll also stay clear of the politics on that one, save to say he did have Ken St. Andre's original 1st print.

Phentari wrote:... second printing of Monsters!  Monsters!

If that's a $7 cover price Metagaming edition, that's a first not a second. They had difficulty shifting copies and reduced the cover price to $5.95 later (with $7 copies turning up for a long time afterwards, in all likelihood...).

faro wrote:If that's a $7 cover price Metagaming edition, that's a first not a second. They had difficulty shifting copies and reduced the cover price to $5.95 later (with $7 copies turning up for a long time afterwards, in all likelihood...).

Second print from FBInc.  Should've clarified, sorry.

Phentari wrote:Second print from FBInc.  Should've clarified, sorry.

Darn, that's a pity... Still, it seems like you have quite a few other more collectible items on hand: a pity that the market isn't a bit stronger at present, from that p.o.v., and that those have to be sold only because of a (huge) dental bill.