No need to apologize, Andy.  The community here has a GREAT and forgiving sense of humor.  

I believe the last foldered PoVQ that sold on ebay might have been the one I won for $725 two years ago...unless I missed something.  That's the one I sold privately here last fall (that I PM'd you about).

Have there been others since?

I am getting a photograph of the cover ready and am taking the time to count pages, etc.  My question is, does the credits page that is glued into the folder count as one of the 24?  As I did the math from the site here, I counted that the glued credits page must count as one of the 24.  Here is the wierd part.  There is a duplicate of the Level III monster descriptions.  They are printed on the same paper and look to be exactly the same (ie not a photocopy).  With this page and counting the credits page my folder has 25 pages.

Any thoughts?

Andy

Mine has one duplicate as well

I have spent some time today photographing and grading the item.  Here is what I have come up with.  First, the front cover.  The blemishes include a bumped lower right corner, a minor bend in the upper right corner (but no crease), slight lightening near the top of the tower and above the title "Dungeon Masters Kit".  There is also a very minor lightening of the cover toward the bottom edge.  The back cover looks perfect so I did not include a photograph. Take a look (pic1):


For the internal pages, I opted to only photograph the portions of the few pages that are not in mint condition.  There are three that are blemished.  First, the colored cover page.  The first image shows a slight bend along the lower right corner where the previous owner closed the folder with this portion across the folder crease.  Note, though the bottom corner looks discolored in this picture, it is not. I believe my shadow cast that purple tinge that you see:


This same page has a bit of a bend in the upper left corner:


The next page with "kit contains" has a small bend on the upper left corner:


And the 1st page describing level three monsters has a very slight bend in the upper left corner though there is an extra, pristine copy of this page included:


Finally, there has been a question or two about the mylar bag that it was discovered in.  I don't know if this is original and there are no marks or price tags of any kind on it.  Here is what it looks like with the folder within:


That will give you an idea of what I am looking at.  I am no expert grader, but I would grade the folder VF, the internal pages overall NM and the entire item VF-NM.  I would greatly appreciate your opinions on this graded based on what you see in the pics.  If anyone wishes to have more pictures, drop me a PM.

Thanks,
Andy

Hello,

Thanks for the questions.  Here are the answers:

You refer to the cover page as colored. Is it yellow? Some of them had white cover pages. It's hard to tell from the pic.

It is the dark yellow color referred to here on the site.

-Are all of the pages single-sided, i.e., printed on one side only?

All of the pages are printed on a single side.

Is the item now safely tucked away?  One reason I ask is because it would be good to see one of the map pages. There was some discussion a while ago about apparent grid marks / cross-dots on map pages that related to the printing sequence of the PoVQ.

Here is a picture of the map.  Two things to note that are of relevance.  One, the grid marks in rooms and corridors do show. Second, there is a two tone (gray and black) nature to the map.
Here is a picture of the map.

Hello,

I was considering offering the auction style on ebay that hides the names of the bidders.  Would this be preferred.  Please let me know via PM

Thanks,

Andy

bombadil wrote:I believe the last foldered PoVQ that sold on ebay might have been the one I won for $725 two years ago...unless I missed something.  That's the one I sold privately here last fall (that I PM'd you about).

Have there been others since?

YEAHHHH!!! you forgot mine!      

Great, Andy!

Thanks for the heads-up.

Hello all,



The auction is finally underway.  If you see anything out of place or have additional questions, contact me here or through ebay.




** expired/removed eBay auction **




Many thanks,



Andy