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On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 09:23:47 -0500, Spanky The Man
<SpankyTheMan@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:40:27 -0500, Vreejack
><homeless.beggar@internet.crossroads.usa> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:45:59 -0500, Spanky The Man
>><SpankyTheMan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Like the Players Handbook, the Dungeon Masters Guide received an
>>>update, with the most prominent change being the revised cover art and
>>>orange binding so it matched the format of the other AD&D hardbacks.
>>>The content inside was almost identical otherwise.
>
>>I got suspicious because the scanned pages showed too much age. I also
>>remembered that a few years ago someone posted this scan without the
>>bookmarks and explained that he just changed the cover on an old scan.
>>This is it.
>
>That was me, and it was seven months ago. ;-)
>
>IIRC, I also replaced one or two pages (near the back I think) as
>well. It is not 100% identical.
>
>Determining printing versions is difficult with early TSR hardcovers,
>since they mixed-n-matched covers and content when they started
>running short of the one or the other. The 8th printing had the new
>cover but its frontspiece still referred to the original cover and
>artist. This was fixed in the 9th printing.

You archivist, you.

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