I feel kinda attached to them. Maybe it's the memory of rolling so many joints over them. I half expect to find a pressed 5-pointed leaf in the pages. At any rate I have some old D&D books I was wondering if anyone saw a value in. I hate to just recycle them after keeping them around for 25 years.

I bought these all before 1979:

1st edition Players Handbook, second printing 1978
Revised edition DM Guide, 1979
3rd edition Monster Manual, 1978
11th printing Greyhawk Supplement I, 1979
8th printing Blackmoor Supplement II, 1979
7th printing Eldrich Wizardry Supplement III, 1978
7th printing Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes Supplement IV, 1979
5th printing Swords and Spells, 1979

Jebus, was I a geek in college. Life was so simple, except the god damn math in those manual dice games.

I guess from remaining price tags that the books cost my $100 25 years ago. The books I see on ebay that are in the same or better condition than mine are going for around $5-10 if my sloppy job of research proves correct. So my collection can't be worth more than $30-40.

Crap. Even if someone does want them, who would pay postage on top of that? But can we find a good home for this shit anyway? (I'm such a salesman.)

This is not a scan of my book, but looks like the same kinda shape.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Pass them on to your children. We need to keep geekness alive.

I know your problem. About a year ago I came across my collection of AD&D books, same vintage as your's, and thought about selling on eBay for a fast buck. Checking the auctions, I was crushed to find out they were worth little. So now I faced with selling them to the local used book store, which will play me nothing as they all ready have a glut on their shelves, or trying to complete the set of books in order to say I have a complete set and to collect further dust.

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"Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe."

I'd keep 'em. Erol Otis rocks.

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What others say about boorite!

I suggest you burn 'em. They are full of devil worship and witchcraft.

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"You'll burn for this. Burn in jail!"

Okay, but if there's any girls there I wanna do them!

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"Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe."

Keep em until they're antiques.

Hmm... it suddenly hits me that people have been playing D&D for about 30 years now, while I still can't find anyone who plays Aberrant, Adventure, Feng Shui or Toon, the RPGs I like...

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

Or Classic Traveller.

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"Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe."

I played the hell out of classic Traveller. The first computer programs I wrote were for generating Traveller characters.

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What others say about boorite!

You get 11.

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When they invent BookFace, I'm -there-.

Okay. I keep the friggin books. I guess I'll have to chuck the Ming Vases to make room in my shack.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Keep em until they're antiques.

can you imagine, 100 years from now on antiques road show.

"so where did you get this Dungeon Masters Guide?"
"Well, my great grandfather was a lighting technician at the first Dragon Con, and Gary Gygax himself gave this to him..."

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Can't you fit the books INTO the vases?

Or maybe put them underneath.

Yeah those books rock, but I'd only pay ten dollars for all of them. Then I would have to hide them away, paranoid anyone would ever see them, EVER.

Every night I would check on them to make sure no one found them.

Eventually their existence would drive me mad.

So anyway, I'll pay $10 + shipping for them.

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Can't you fit the books INTO the vases?

Or maybe put them underneath.

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The wolly manmoth pelts take up all that space.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

At the local used book store, Half Price Books, I priced the old edition AD&D books at $ 7.95. The new ones were only $9.95.

I'm afraid we are going to wait a long time before they are considered valuable. Maybe several centuries from now, when the American Empire has fallen and archeologist rediscover the books. Of course they probably identify them as religous or scientific tomes. I wonder what insights into american culture they'll infer.

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"Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe."

quote:

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I would have to hide them away, paranoid anyone would ever see them, EVER.

Every night I would check on them to make sure no one found them.

Eventually their existence would drive me mad.

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Yeah, I'm like that too.

Somebody slipped a naked picture of Cheney into one of my rulebooks. I've never RP'ed since.

Perhaps forever?