Ok, it arrived today, so I wanna review what's in it... guess I can get the camera out should I need to post some pics...

Based on the details here about the 1st print... this is a 1st print. (VG to F) depending on how you class the box.. books are VF

The "Reference Sheets" do not have a "cover" like later Ref Sheets ie: the Dungeons & Dragons logo on the outside... instead it's 6 pieces of paper (not 5) and 3 are printed on both sides and 3 are printed on one side.. then all folded together... don't know if this is normal or not.

Also, the "Correction Sheet" is present in this copy.

..... below is additional info on other stuff I got in the lot ...

The first White box in the lot is a 5th print box (G)... the books are 6th print books (F). The Men & Magic booklet pages are cut way way bad from the printer... pages 17-20 in the center of the book are a good 1/4" shorter as in stapled up from the bottom... and the 1/4" is missing from the top of the page thus cut into the words and the 1 on page 18 is cut off... nasty job on this booklet

The 3 volumes of the Arduin Grimoire set are in NM condition... really nice stuff

The second white box is a 6th print OCE in (VG box) books (F-VF) ...

The Dragon # 1 is NM as is the Dungeon #1 and most of the Strategic Reviews (it is all 7 of them) only one looks a bit used...

The supplements are all "common" and have been used as well, some more than others... but mostly in the VG to Fine... as is the 8th print Chainmail.

serleran wrote:I'd like to see the Arduin stuff.

Ok, you can go to:

http://www.bbsfiles.com/acaeum

I took a few pics

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:good pics. correction sheet is photocopy i think
impossible to say if original but does not have edge aging it looks

Oh, forgot I put pics of the Woody there, that was for someone asking to buy it so I made pics...

The Correction sheet was in the center of the Ref Sheets "booklet". It appears to be of the same paper as the Ref Sheets, but I agree, a photo copy none the less... looks like some copier lines along the top edge and bottom right.... maybe the Ref Sheets were also "copies" back in teh day when these things were put together by hand ?

ScketreWhisp wrote:Oh, forgot I put pics of the Woody there, that was for someone asking to buy it so I made pics...

like anyone would want to buy should do well

ScketreWhisp wrote:The Correction sheet was in the center of the Ref Sheets "booklet". It appears to be of the same paper as the Ref Sheets, but I agree, a photo copy none the less... looks like some copier lines along the top edge and bottom right.... maybe the Ref Sheets were also "copies" back in teh day when these things were put together by hand ?

checked correction sheets nothing that helps for 100% sure for yours sorry. have not seen "genuine" photocopy before but is still possible. had zoom set on that one

makes change to see photocopy. where did all those pirate sets go to??

bombadil wrote:Thanks for the very thorough pics, Doug.  Looks like some nice stuff you won there.  But we all know you BINned it for the Dragon #1.  

I am about to put pics of the rest of it up.. some asked about other items...

The Dragon #1 in the bunch was a nice added bonus for sure...