Today September 25th is the second day of Blackmoor Week 2021.
Last year I wrote about The First Fantasy Campaign aka Blackmoor and there are many more posts that follow the link below:
2020 - The Year of Blackmoor - 50th Anniversary - Day One Hundred and Thirty-Six
In response to a question I wrote:
Yes, you are correct. Although it does not happen very often, sometimes the Acaeum does get it wrong and the first print is entirely black and white. On a true first print the black and white image that appears on a title page in the later printings was the cover on the first print.
I provided the following information for the Wikipedia page.
"1st Printing (1977): The Cover and entire booklet are Black and White. The Cover says "The First Fantasy Campaign Playing Aid" with Playing Aid as a subtitle. A large mostly circular picture with Trees in the foreground and a Fire Elemental in the background below which it says "by Dave Arneson" and "Judges Guild". There is no other verbiage on the cover and the price does not appear on the cover. The Back Cover has a product list titled "Booty List" with the highest number being 35 and "New Non-Sub Items" listing product numbers 36-39. It comes with the first printing of the First Fantasy Campaign Maps. This book consists of 92 numbered pages plus the cover, inside cover, back cover and Table of Contents for a total of 96 total pages. The dark red cover was used for the reformatted later printings that used a smaller font and fewer pages."
Since then this correct information has been deleted from the Wikipedia page. However, I have the 1st print from 1977 and the entire book is black and white, it does have a total of 96 pages including the covers and the above image does appear as the cover of the book. If you have any of the dark red covers shown over at the Acaeum, you do not have a 1st print.
That sounds very interesting Halenar. I would very much like to see a picture of your edition if it would be possible for you to post. If your book have the black and white cover, does it have a title page at all?
ReplyDeleteI have two editions of the book, the one with larger font copyright 1977 and the one with the smaller font copyright 1980. They both have the brown and red cover albeit with differences.
What is weird is that the first of them looks EXACTLY like everything you describe, except it also has a brown and red cover. Its title page, however, matches the description of your cover 100%. Here is a picture of its title page and the back side of the title page: https://i.imgur.com/O9aXDXr.png
Do you think they might be the same edition with variations in covers?
I have no way of knowing. But I will try to get some pictures posted within the next week or so at the forum.
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