TSR NuTSR Sells Rebound 1E Core Rulebooks For $650 Each

Despite being embroiled in ongoing legal disputes with WotC regarding use of the TSR trademark (amongst other things), NuTSR has posted images of leather-bound compilations of AD&D 1E books they say are rebindings of old material, complete with the disputed logo. They're selling these books for $650 each.

The Deities & Demigods book (middle top in the image) has a typo on the front cover.


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About these books, NuTSR says "Look what just came in. Sorry, we didn't have these in for TSR CON. (in the beginning, WotC said similar to what people below are saying. We said they are rebound of old material. Long story short, WotC said ok no problem, we have it in writing)"

As rebindings, these would be existing books simply being resold. However, the covers with the disputed logo are new.

In early March WotC launched a lawsuit -- (PDF attachment of filing) -- naming TSR, TSR CEO Justin LaNasa personally, and the Dungeon Hobby Shop museum. WotC seeks a judgement that TSR hand over all domains, take down all websites, pay treble damages and costs, hand over all stock and proceeds related to the trademarks, and more.

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DId I quick ebay search for the rates these books usually go for.

Players Hnadbook $125

Deities & Demigods (not rare version) $60

Monster Manual
$28 (still bidding)
$45
$150

Monster Manual II $20 (Still bidding)

Monster Manual rare printing
$2.5K
$250

There's more.
 


The amount of bandwidth this forum dedicates to TSR is quite stunning. I wouldn't be surprised if numerous sales came from people not reading the posts and just googling how they can buy these beautifully bound books. I'm tempted to get a few myself, I bet they will sell for a fortune in 40 years.
In 40 years the people who value these books will largely be dead.
 

While the misspellings are inexcusable, the missing apostrophes in the titles are accurate. The titles of the 1st Edition Handbooks were "Players Handbook" and "Dungeon Masters Guide" and not "Player's Handbook" and "Dungeon Master's Guide". Even the official 2012 WotC premium reprints of the 1st Edition books honored TSR's original apostropheless titles.
Indeed, they're plural rather than possessive.
 

At the time, yes, but most if not all Lovecraft stuff has since become public domain because he's been dead so long.
AIUI, a lot of Cthulhu stuff was in the public domain then too, having never been properly registered for copyright (and coinciding with a brief period when that was required). But as @Dannyalcatraz has already pointed out, there is a lot of the mythos that was definitely still under copyright.

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glass.
 

DId I quick ebay search for the rates these books usually go for.
You can find much cheaper copies of the PHB, DMG and MM if you look for the second covers. Or if you look for the reprints that Wizards did a few years ago. Either set you can find in the $60 range or so in nice condition - if you're ripping the covers off anyway you can probably find cheaper copies with beat-up covers but with decent insides.
 


I'm guessing part of the reason for the $650 price is that they don't actually want any takers. But, hey - they offered product, right?
 

However, there are some schools of grammar that choose not to use punctuation (see ee cummings) so there is some justification for omitting it, so long as it is done consistently.

E.E. Cummings was not from a "school of grammar" that eschewed punctuation. He was a poet and artist, choosing to break rules for artistic effect. Outside his published poetry, he could and did use punctuation normally.
 

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