I have what appears to be a 3rd gamma. Its endpapers are pasted over but I cant see any previous binding holes. The text on page 99 is not at an angle.

I also have 1st prints and 4th prints on up.



Mike

sauromatian wrote in Request for help: DMG print sequence:

chromaticknight wrote in Request for help: DMG print sequence: The text on page 99 is not at an angle.

My p.99 doesn't look like it's angled at first glance, but by measuring the top of the text & its distance from the outer right-hand edge, it is about 1/8" closer than the bottom of the text is to the outer right-hand edge.

I never checked the distance there before. I had always looked at the bottom of the page from left to right.

I took your advice and checked it on the right hand edge top and bottom. I get very little difference, about 1/32". That small amount could be my eyes getting older but its definitely not a major angle. Any other aspects that I can check?



Mike

I am totally thread necromancing this, just for posterity and in case anyone cares about this still.

So, I am in the process of listing a DMG for sale and in the process of trying to determine it's printing, I see that it matches none of the listed printings on the site currently.

https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/dmg.html

From what I can tell, the DMG that I am listing now runs somewhere in the sixth printings, however it also has a couple of key differences that are not currently enumerate in any of the one currently lisited on the site.  This copy is closest to the listed Sixth gamma, via:

"Sixth Gamma (1980)

   Endpapers and flyleaves are white

   The text on the spine is aligned to the "bottom" of the spine, rather than being centered. This is possibly due to the printer using a slightly thinner cover and/or page stock, resulting in a thinner overall book

   No survey form, and reference sheets are NOT perforated

   236 numbered pages

   This print is otherwise identical to the Sixth Alpha print, above"

However, while my copy has white endpapers and flyleafs and only has "Advanced D&D*tm*" on the front cover(with no adventure games as listed on the 7th print), the text on the spine is centered(as opposed to near the bottom), it has 238 numbered pages(not 236), it has no survey form and while the reference pages say that they are perforated, they are most certainly not. They are bound like regular pages and no signs of any perforations on any of them.

Based on these differences, I suspect this would put my printing slightly later than the sixth gamma, but before the listed seventh print.

ETA:  I just took a bunch of pictures too, just in case anyone wants to see them.

grodog wrote in Request for help: DMG print sequence:
Fire away, Brian!

Allan.

Here they are: