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Message no. 1
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: More SRII hardback stories
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:52:59 +0100
Paolo Marcucci said on 9:41/15 Jul 96...

> Just to be thwapped by the list... I have a hardback sr2 with some
> autographs on the first page (Tom Dowd, Jim Nelson, etc...) I've received it
> by mail order, so I think it is a huge concidence...

I wish I'd asked Tom Dowd to sign my copy (he was at the con I bought
it 3 years ago). Oh well.

I've got a signed copy of Millennium's End, though...

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Message no. 2
From: C J Anderson <nitehawk@******.net>
Subject: Re: More SRII hardback stories
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 05:51:48 -0500
Gurth wrote:
>
> Paolo Marcucci said on 9:41/15 Jul 96...
>
> > Just to be thwapped by the list... I have a hardback sr2 with some
> > autographs on the first page (Tom Dowd, Jim Nelson, etc...) I've received it
> > by mail order, so I think it is a huge concidence...
>
> I wish I'd asked Tom Dowd to sign my copy (he was at the con I bought
> it 3 years ago). Oh well.
>
> I've got a signed copy of Millennium's End, though...

Now I feel really lucky. I found my hardcover SR2 in the used
games section of a local gaming store for 5.00. It was in excellent
condition. Maybe I should build a display case and buy a softcover to
use when gaming, eh? Didn't know they were that rare. Half the group I
game with has 'em, but the geeks all bought them new.

C J Anderson

nitehawk@******.net


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Message no. 3
From: Droopy <droopy@**.net>
Subject: Re: More SRII hardback stories
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:25:18 -0400
At 05:51 AM 7/15/96 -0500, C J Anderson wrote:

> Now I feel really lucky. I found my hardcover SR2 in the used
>games section of a local gaming store for 5.00. It was in excellent
>condition. Maybe I should build a display case and buy a softcover to
>use when gaming, eh? Didn't know they were that rare. Half the group I
>game with has 'em, but the geeks all bought them new.

Well, considering how long our 1st ed hardback lasted before the binding
broke, I'd suggest getting a softbound version to play with anyway. My
first softbound version lasted over a year and through Desert Storm before
it gave out.


--Droopy
Message no. 4
From: C J Anderson <nitehawk@******.net>
Subject: Re: More SRII hardback stories
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:53:24 -0500
> Well, considering how long our 1st ed hardback lasted before the binding
> broke, I'd suggest getting a softbound version to play with anyway. My
> first softbound version lasted over a year and through Desert Storm before
> it gave out.
>
> --Droopy


So, everybody's talking about how valuable and rare the hardcovers are.
I wonder if anybody knows of someone who really wants one, and/or what
they're worth.

--C J Anderson

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Message no. 5
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: More SRII hardback stories
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:46:43 +0100
Droopy said on 12:25/16 Jul 96...

> Well, considering how long our 1st ed hardback lasted before the binding
> broke, I'd suggest getting a softbound version to play with anyway. My
> first softbound version lasted over a year and through Desert Storm before
> it gave out.

Strange... My SR1 softback (first SR book I bought) lated for about 7
months and by that time the front 40 pages or so were all loose and the
back cover had come off. I then bought an SRII hardcover and that's still
alive today, over 3 years later.

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Message no. 6
From: Adam Wise <dwise@****.state.il.us>
Subject: Re: More SRII hardback stories
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:04:08 -0500
At 01:46 PM 7/17/96 +0100, Gurth wrote:
>Droopy said on 12:25/16 Jul 96...
>
>> Well, considering how long our 1st ed hardback lasted before the binding
>> broke, I'd suggest getting a softbound version to play with anyway. My
>> first softbound version lasted over a year and through Desert Storm before
>> it gave out.
>
>Strange... My SR1 softback (first SR book I bought) lated for about 7
>months and by that time the front 40 pages or so were all loose and the
>back cover had come off. I then bought an SRII hardcover and that's still
>alive today, over 3 years later.
>

Hmm, Gurth, what do you do to your books? ;) I still have my original SRI
softcover, and aside from losing page # 2, its still in pretty good
condition after about 5 years (I can't remember exactly when I got it).
Though I admit that it only had heavy use for about 1 1/2 of those.

Later,

Adam Wise (The Dodger) '42'

"But the truth was far from reality"
--Spider Robinson

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