Dungeons & Dragons (1974)--Brown Box, 1st print

[tfm]

Title: Dungeons & Dragons
Item Code: n/a
Type: Rules for the original Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing system
Copyright: 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules
Author(s): Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson
Artwork: Keenan Powell, Greg Bell, C. Corey, D. Arneson, and T. Keogh
Cartography: n/a
Place of Publication: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, United States
Printer: Geneva Printing Company, Lake Geneva
Format: brown box containing three softcover booklets, stapled, and six loose-leaf reference sheets
ISBN: n/a
Cover Price: $10.00
Mass: 326g
Dimensions: box: length 22.2cm, width 15.3cm, thickness 4cm (front label size--length 19.6cm, width 12.6; side label on right side of box--length 7.6cm, width 3.4cm)
Volume 1: length 21.6cm, width 14.4cm, thickness .3cm
Volume 2: length 21.6cm, width 13.9cm, thickness .3cm
Volume 3: length 21.8cm, width 14.2cm, thickness .3cm

Additional images:

Bottom:


Volume 1:






Volume 2:






Volume 3:







Reference Sheet #1 (front)


Reference Sheet #1 (back)


Reference Sheet #2 (front)


Reference Sheet #2 (back)


Reference Sheet #3 (front)


Reference Sheet #3 (back)


Reference Sheet #4 (front)


Reference Sheet #4 (back)


Reference Sheet #5 (front)


Reference Sheet #5 (back)


Reference Sheet #6 (front)


Reference Sheet #6 (back)


Staple pattern


This box came with a few extras:




It is currently believed that the 1st print of the D&D boxed set was issued without an errata sheet. This sheet came with this set, but it is folded down the middle from top to bottom, suggesting that it was mailed separately. Why fold it at all if it was issued with the set? The errata sheet must have been available by request from TSR. It has the GK logo and is blank on the back.





These copies (and others) were also present with this set. The first image appears on the bottom of page 93 in the 1st print Monster Manual. The second image appears on page 21 of Dragon magazine. They probably appear in other places as well.

[tfm]

Title: Dungeons & Dragons (w/variant cover)
Item Code: n/a
Type: Rules for the original Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing system
Copyright: 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules
Author(s): Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson
Artwork: Keenan Powell, Greg Bell, C. Corey, D. Arneson, and T. Keogh
Cartography: n/a
Place of Publication: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, United States
Printer: Geneva Printing Company, Lake Geneva
Format: brown box containing three softcover booklets, stapled, and six loose-leaf reference sheets
ISBN: n/a
Cover Price: $10.00
Mass: 326g
Dimensions: box: length 22.2cm, width 15.3cm, thickness 4cm (front label size--length 19.5cm, width 12.7; side label on right side of box--length 7.1cm, width 3.4cm)
Volume 1: length 21.7cm, width 14.3cm, thickness .3cm
Volume 2: length 21.5cm, width 14.2cm, thickness .3cm
Volume 3: length 21.4cm, width 14.1cm, thickness .3cm

Additional images:

Bottom:


Volume 1:


Volume 2:


Volume 3:


Staple Pattern

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This is also a 1st print, but the cover of Volume 3 is made of a different material. Apparently, the printer ran out of the original cover paper. With the exceptions of the variant cover paper, booklet dimensions, and label dimensions, this boxed set is the same as the one listed above.

[Chromatic-Knight]

My first print boxed set matches TFMs' first entry down to and including the reference sheets.
Mine did not have the correction sheet or other goodies.



Mike.

[Chromatic-Knight]

TFM - what logo is on the correction sheet from your first print?
Is it a single sheet, unattached to any others?
Is it blank on the back?

Thanks,
Mike

[tfm]

I added your query to the entry.
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[cgould42]

1st print:

My first print boxed set also matches TFM’s first entry with the following exceptions / notes:

Exceptions -

• The correction sheet is present but it is not folded. (The sheet seems to be poorly printed on light paper stock.)

• It does not include the images.

Notes -

• The material of UWA (volume 3) matches the other two books but the staples are not located at the same point on the book.


• Side box label on right side.

• Woodgrain is horizontal.

[tfm]

I added staple imagery to the first print samples above. Mine corresponds with yours. I am a bit puzzled, though. I can't imagine an explanation that accounts for the 'original' third booklet having offset staples and the 'replacement cover' having staples in alignment. You would think it would be the other way around.
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