A curiosity from the old days...

[MerricB]

As I've posted recently, I've been trying to fill in the holes in my AD&D (1st edition) collection. Well, those holes I perceive, anyway. There are plenty of products I don't actually need.

I've been buying old modules through e-bay, and, of course, sometimes the lots contain stuff that isn't on my list but I'm happy to get anyway. Such it was with this product: G2 The Glacial Chasm of the Frost Giant Jarl. (The actual point of the auction was to get WG5 Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure, the last classic Greyhawk adventure I didn't have).

Yes, it's a little piece of history. 8 pages of adventure. Possibly less, given the first page is the title page, and there's a piece of full-page art as well.

However, when I went to the Acaeum to check out which edition it was (with the Lizard logo, it looked like a first edition), I noticed a few irregularities, such as it was missing the angled "Second of Three Adventures" banner...



Finally I tracked down why it differed from the other copies of G2 I've seen: it's an Australian printing! (That I could find it in Australia is, thus, not so surprising).

What did surprise me was this very early AD&D module was printed in Australia for the local audience. Does anyone know how (or why) that came about?

Cheers!

 

[grodog]

I don't know the whys and wherefores, Merric, but the .au editions of G1-3 and D1-3 are pretty collectible. I have one of them that I found on the cheap, by accident

There's some info @ Foreign Editions Master List and it suggests that Jedko published them via license from TSR (they also published a unique verison of Dungeon! too).