Second Print:
- Illustration by Erol Otus
- red box
- top banner 'Règles de base, module d'introduction, un jeu de six dés, plus un crayon ci-inclus'.
- Angled Logo
- Contains the rulebook, the B2 module, dice and a pen.



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Fourth Print:
- Illustration by Elmore
- red box
- Contains 2 booklets and dice.

This version is now 'corrigée' (rather than 'corregè').



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Sixth print:
- Illustration by Elmore
- red box
- Contains 2 booklets and dice.

This version differs from the previous one:
- on the back of the box can read an informative message on the product's compliance (bottom right) -no sticker-.
- You can find '4 th Edition ' written in the first booklet (as the 5th) BUT NOV 87 also (near TSR).

(You can find advertisements for SOLAR products, as the 5th print).

Great work! It's nice to see the entirety of each set, and everything at once. Could you add an approximate year of publication for each set?

I assume the B2 is a translation of the revised version (for Moldvay) and not the original (for Holmes)? (Wouldn't make sense to be the original, but sometimes mistakes are made...)

To show some differences in color (in addition to those existing between the first two versions ...)

This is a fourth (left) and a third print :




Here are the 6th and the 7th. The box is brilliant, shiny.


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If anybody has got some informations about these, don't hesitate.

afaik the very 1st print run was the basic book only... i have a copy of it but i dont have any other version to check if there are differences...

is there anyone who is able to confirm me that the true 1st print is the book only?

ciaooo

Axel, I really have problem with this story. We haven't found any confirmation here in France.
- the books were printed in the US, dices were produced in the US too, so the boxes -probably-... so what would be the supply problem ?
- french VAT is different if you sell books (without a box) or books in a box...

I highly doubt that there are two different 'first print'. Maybe some boxes were crushed during the shipping and some books were sold without, but I don't believe in a 'true first print'.
We are still investigating...

If you have some time to make a scan or take a picture, maybe we can compare our 'first'.

It is written here, at the foreign section, but we didn't found any mention of that in the old french magazines.
I will look at them again...

I wrote a blog post about the French translation of Holmes, which according to one report was included English-language Holmes sets sold in France:

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/201 ... perbe.html