Cool. That would be news to me.

Please check against this list of differences between the 1st edition (1st printing) / 3rd edition (printing unclear at this time):

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... 15&t=18178

However, looking quickly I can see that the section on page 46 of the 3rd edition used for this list did not refer to the Chits. Looks like there may be a 1st and 2nd printing of the 3rd edition.

Great find!

Edit: made a mistake above referring to 3rd printing instead of 3rd edition. Just clarified this.

Both of these have the ISBN...

Seems different enough to me since there are actual amendments to rules information... the print in the books actually differs.

Yeah just call it the 3rd edition book and then printings can be assigned to it.
Maybe like I did City State of the World Emperor Playing Aid, as a set there is 4 printings, but individually the books and Campaign map are 2-3 printings.

ShaneG.

bbarsh wrote:This is a great find.

Without getting off topic, we need to get a sticky thread that keeps this type of research up front.

I have been slowly tracking I6 modules and B3 modules because we discovered an additional printing of each (I6 for sure; still confirming B3) several years ago and it got dropped.

I6 has a confirmed second printing. The B3 still needs more confirmation.

Problem is that it takes a long time to do this stuff and it gets lost.

Agreed. I went into pretty stupid detail about the B/X sets and it too fell by.

I'll tag my recent thread too.

bbarsh - what can you tell us about I6 and B3?  What have you found?

Pics:

PAGE 19


Page 46


Back Cover

Plaag wrote:Well the products page to the right is very similar to the 4th print Monster Manual product page except for the bottom 3 lines, Accessories list and the 2 lines for the B1 module above the AD&D modules list.

Side note: I don't have a B2 1st print product list-it may help.

From my notes I have the left hand side catalog book in the box set along with dice chit sheet and 2nd print B2.  Not sure if it has an ISBN as all my stuff is not easily accessible.

ShaneG.

The book on the left is from a "chitted" boxed set.

I also have an identical 3rd ed. that had the chits stapled into the book... I removed them from the book YEARS ago though.

Okay, I just broke out my Holmes printings...I have a 1st edition (1st printing), a 2nd edition, and a 3rd edition. The 1st and 3rd were the ones I used in compiling the cumulative list of changes linked above.

This 3rd edition matches the left-hand pictures above. I am going to tentatively assign this as the latest printing of the 3rd, for these reasons:

(1) In the right-hand pictures above, page 19 matches both the 1st edition (1st printing), and the 2nd edition. Thus, the re-formatting of page 19 appears to be a change that was not implemented until partway through the 3rd edition.

(2) In the right-hand pictures above, the product listing ("Other Items From TSR") is identical to the 2nd edition, except that the prices are missing.

Here's my tentative print assignments:

2nd edition: no ISBN number on page 1 lower left; page 19 formatted with combat matrix in middle of page; "USING THE DICE" on page 46 references only dice (but no 10-sided die); product list on back cover includes prices (reference: does not include B2 under "ADVENTURE MODULES FOR BASIC D&D").

3rd edition, 1st printing: no ISBN number on page 1 lower left; no other information currently available (I'm tentatively putting this first because the 1st and 2nd editions do not have an ISBN number on page 1).

[existence of this printing requires further confirmation]

3rd edition, 2nd printing: ISBN number on page 1 lower left; page 19 formatted as 2nd edition (combat matrix in middle of page); "USING THE DICE" on page 46 references dice (but no 10-sided die) and chits; product list on back cover identical to 2nd edition except that the prices are missing (reference: does not include B2 under "ADVENTURE MODULES FOR BASIC D&D").

[this is printing is in the right-hand pictures above]

3rd edition, 3rd printing: ISBN number lower left page 1; page 19 reformatted with combat matrix at top of page; "USING THE DICE" on page 46 references only Dice (including 10-sided die); product list on back cover has been changed from 2nd edition (reference: includes B2 under "ADVENTURE MODULES FOR BASIC D&D")

[this printing is in the left-hand pictures above]

...Why do I have 7 copies of Holmes?