I like to collect 1E DMGs, PHBs, MMs, and D&DGs.  I have several of these, but ran into something I hadn't seen before, and wondered if anyone on here had.  

I picked up an 8th printing of the DMG the other day.  Most of the DMGs I have are from this printing, but this one was different.  On all the others I own, the spine coloring is made up of predominately brown and red, with a little black (aside from the yellow lettering).  This one I just bought has a spine made up of various shades of green, with a little black.  The front and back covers are identical in coloring to the others I own, it's just this green coloring on the spine that is different.  There is no apparent damage or bleaching out of the color ( the art lines are quite sharp), but I've not seen this before.

Anyone else seen this?

JohnGaunt wrote:Do you have a scan?  Sunlight and fluorescent lighting can bleach inks/colors in very strange ways.

On second thought, a scan isn't necessary.  If the spine is the only part of the book that looks funny, then sun or light damage is the cause.

I used to have one that looked like this... the actual black ink doesn't fade but the dark backish-brown does. This is because sunlight fades the red (magenta) color the most.

Thanks for the replies everyone.  It is most likely light damage that caused the odd coloration.  The green is very vivid, though, and not pale or washed out, which led me to believe that it is a printing oddity.  It does make an interesting visual contrast to my other DMGs.