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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6275259" data-attributes="member: 2525">OK I finally found a reliable source for MSRP on the AD&D 1e books.  This is the original order form from Dungeon Hobby Shop in 1981 (owned and run by TSR at the time):<img src="http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/chromaticknight/ToT/catdhs81f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I have no reason to believe those prices in 1981 were different on first publication date (and I got prior confirmation the $15 DMG price was accurate for it's first publication date).  So, let's use these numbers, and run them from their first publication date (which are MM 1977, PHB 1978, DMG 1979), using the Government inflation calculator:MM 1977 $12 = $46.32.PHB 1978 $12 = $43.05.DMG 1979 $15 = $48.33.So that adds up to: $137.70 in 2014 dollars.  An average of $45.90 each.I am guessing that, had WOTC decided to release the books one-per-year like TSR originally did (2014, 2015, 2016), that $4.05 difference would disappear with the additional inflation.</blockquote>