Thomas Shey
Legend
I suspect mine was of the same era, and had the same problem. I ended up buying the LYB later to cover for it.
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I suspect mine was of the same era, and had the same problem. I ended up buying the LYB later to cover for it.
Kannik
Legend
Huh, I'll have to take mine off the shelf and check on it... though now I'm afraid if I do so that it will turn into a game of "5200 page pickup".
Thomas Shey
Legend
If I recall, it wasn't so much individual pages separating as the bundle of pages partially or totally separating from the cover.
Thomas Shey
Legend
My guess is it would be the first printing, but if I even still have mine, gods know where it is.
Reynard
aka Ian Eller
Why would you think that, specifically?
AbdulAlhazred
Legend
Yeah, a lot of less expensive hardcovers have these issues, and WotC certainly isn't going for the sort of quality that TSR did with the first 3 books of AD&D (all of mine are in perfect, though worn condition). My 4e books have mostly held together though. Honestly, I don't use them much, all the rules are online... What I can't quote from memory.
Mine says First Edition, August 1989.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Because mine had the problem, and as I recall I bought that hardcover as soon as it was available to do so. I wouldn't say it was impossible that there were two print runs in very short order and I got the second, but they'd have had to sold out on the first printing astonishingly fast for it not to be the one I had.
Kannik
Legend
Checked: Mine is mostly OK, nothing falling out though one bit does seem to be developing a split between the pages.
However, I had forgotten one big thing about my BBB: it was bound backwards. The cover is rotated 180 degrees from the pages within.
(Amusingly, so is my 1e D&D Dragonlance Adventures sourcebook.)
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