Rare is most certainly a very relative word, but didn't 1st print woodies have a print run of 1000? With that being the case, I think everybody agrees that they are in fact rare. One other factor involved in rarity, is retention. Some items are perceived to be less rare because they seem to pop up much more frequetly. That is because of of the retention factor of the owners. Retention can be attributed to a several factors, mostly though as stated above by dbartman, as well as one other: popularity of the item, quality of the item, and also the perceived value of the item. Items that fall into those categories will appear much less frequently than others, because of the fact that owners are more prone to hold on to those items because of those factors. To give an example, look at Wild Things and Dark and Hidden Ways versus the R and RPGA mods. They are both listed as 4s for rarity value, and even factoring in the wariness of folks leery of buying them due to the easiness of forging them with WT/D&HW, which appear less frequently and always command higher prices? The R & RPGA modules without fail. Just my .02.

I think a print run of 7,500 makes the LGJ1-5 an uncommon item. Not rare, not common. Uncommon.

This is what the acaeum uses:

5:  The super-rare (and/or unique) items.  Rarely will these items come up for auction, if at all.
4:  Very rare.
3:  Uncommon, borderline-"rare".
2:  Less common.
1:  Routinely available in auctions.  Includes most RPG items published after 1980, with a few exceptions.

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Though i'm not sure how many surviving copies those numbers equate to...

LGJ#1 + #4 bundle

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