stratochamp wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:I have "many" (25+?) editing copies of TSR products. They actually show "editing" i.e. notations showing the changes between editions. Some of them are in very different stages of layout. The Gamma World 2nd ed box shows copyright info and text moving all around the title page and redline corrections abound. Other ones are "pre-publication" editing versions that show changes prior to publication.If the copies up for sale show any editorial changes, it would seem to me they have some value. If they are identical to existing modules with a sticker slapped on the cover, and then ravaged by 35 years of ill use, it would seem to me their value is....that of a reading copy of the modules. So yes, I would say their price is optimistic. By about $4700.On a related note the "rares" listing for a pre-publication copy of R4 is rather misleading. That is a "pre-publication" editing version, which bears no resemblance to the R1-R3 "pre-publication" printings that were commercially available (albeit in very limited quantities).
Deadlord wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:stratochamp wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:I have "many" (25+?) editing copies of TSR products. They actually show "editing" i.e. notations showing the changes between editions. Some of them are in very different stages of layout. The Gamma World 2nd ed box shows copyright info and text moving all around the title page and redline corrections abound. Other ones are "pre-publication" editing versions that show changes prior to publication.If the copies up for sale show any editorial changes, it would seem to me they have some value. If they are identical to existing modules with a sticker slapped on the cover, and then ravaged by 35 years of ill use, it would seem to me their value is....that of a reading copy of the modules. So yes, I would say their price is optimistic. By about $4700.On a related note the "rares" listing for a pre-publication copy of R4 is rather misleading. That is a "pre-publication" editing version, which bears no resemblance to the R1-R3 "pre-publication" printings that were commercially available (albeit in very limited quantities).The R4 in the picture is a pre-prepub; it is a continuous sheet run off a dot-matrix printer. Almost certainly unique. It wasn't something that was sent around the office to be checked and/or edited.
FoulFoot wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:From what the seller has stated, it's a First print alpha. I think the problems are that A) no picture of the inside cover has been provided, so we're just going off the seller's word, B) low feedback seller, C) the seller took plenty of pictures, but seemingly intentionally omitted taking pictures of the inside cover (and indeed, even avoided mentioning anything that could identify the print in the auction text). The seller can't even claim ignorance, since they cribbed portions of the description from here.I have a bit of an uneasy feeling. I imagine other big bidders feel the same.Foul
Melnibonean wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Deadlord wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:The R4 in the picture is a pre-prepub; it is a continuous sheet run off a dot-matrix printer. Almost certainly unique. It wasn't something that was sent around the office to be checked and/or edited.Is it part of the eBay auction? I do not see any photos of it in the auction.
Deadlord wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:The R4 in the picture is a pre-prepub; it is a continuous sheet run off a dot-matrix printer. Almost certainly unique. It wasn't something that was sent around the office to be checked and/or edited.
SimperingToad wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:The main auction pics also show some very difficult-to-see, but evident water damage at the lower corners of the booklets. Especially noticible at the lower left of the covers. I don't think anyone has problems seeing the stains on the box cover, do they? :)
stratochamp wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Melnibonean wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Is it part of the eBay auction? I do not see any photos of it in the auction.No Scott, I mentioned the R4 because I was trying to correct what I believe to be a mislabeled rare, namely that the dot-matrix printout of R4 should not be lumped in with the commercially available official "prepublication" printings of R1-R3, but should be called something else. Then when Frank typed "The R4 in the picture" he meant the image shown in the Rares section on the Acaeum website, not an ebay auction listing. Sorry to be a source of confusion. I mean well.
Melnibonean wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Is it part of the eBay auction? I do not see any photos of it in the auction.
Marlith wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Not sure if this should be here on in the silly price thread anymore. Saw this and thought people here who didn't see it already might be interested. ** expired/removed eBay auction **
