Kosh Vorlontay wrote:I just came from a trip to the Half Price Bookstore in Tacoma, WA. These people are unbelievable. They have marked up ALL of there 1st Ed AD&D to 2x and even 3x the original selling price!! I mean a DL7 for $18 and it was shelf worn to hell and back. But on the lowest shelf 3 little booklets were poking their spines out to see if somebody would by them. To my surprise they were the first 3 Arduin Grimoires. All 3 were in mint condition with no price listed. I took them up to the blonde sales lady and ask what the price would be on them and she looks them over, gives a little huff and says $3. I said sold and handed her $9. She looked at me, frowned and said $3 total!! I about fell over laughing as I took the Grimoires and my $6 and started walking out the door. One of the other employees asked her what was wrong and when she told him he looked at what I bought and promptly started chewing her out. (Come to find out this was the guy that was marking up all the 1st ed AD&D, so he must have known what they were worth and just didn't get around to marking them up!!! )Anyway, does anybody out there in the forum have any kind of print info on these? It looks like the Skull Tower was actually signed by Dave Hargrave but I was wanting to know if this was normal or not and if it is a signature, is it the real thing. Plus, what is the current worth for these? Any help would be appreciative and I can provide scans if someone would be willing to post them....
Kosh Vorlontay wrote:I just came from a trip to the Half Price Bookstore in Tacoma, WA. These people are unbelievable. They have marked up ALL of there 1st Ed AD&D to 2x and even 3x the original selling price!! I mean a DL7 for $18 and it was shelf worn to hell and back. But on the lowest shelf 3 little booklets were poking their spines out to see if somebody would by them. To my surprise they were the first 3 Arduin Grimoires. All 3 were in mint condition with no price listed. I took them up to the blonde sales lady and ask what the price would be on them and she looks them over, gives a little huff and says $3. I said sold and handed her $9. She looked at me, frowned and said $3 total!! I about fell over laughing as I took the Grimoires and my $6 and started walking out the door. One of the other employees asked her what was wrong and when she told him he looked at what I bought and promptly started chewing her out. (Come to find out this was the guy that was marking up all the 1st ed AD&D, so he must have known what they were worth and just didn't get around to marking them up!!! )
In all my 3 volumes, inside back cover prices lists all volumes as costing $8.95, and says "prices effective 1 November 1986". All volumes refer to Grimoire Games, San Diego
First print: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/af ... e/ag1a.jpg Second print/reprints: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/af ... e/ag1b.jpg