AD&D Players Handbook, Jeff Easley cover (Used: Fair)

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook, TSR 2010, later first-edition printing with Jeff Easley wizard cover. Tenth-print configuration, although the copyright page retains the outdated “6th Printing, January 1980” statement. Complete-appearing and readable. Fair condition with heavy cover wear, substantial surface loss to the lower front cover, moisture staining, worn corners and spine ends, and former-owner names written across the front endpapers.

Author: Gary Gygax
TSR product: 2010
Edition: AD&D First Edition
Actual printing: Tenth printing, circa 1983
ISBN: 0-88038-104-3
Original cover price: $15.00
Cover artist: Jeff Easley

This copy has one of TSR’s little bibliographic trapdoors: the copyright page says “6th Printing, January 1980,” but that is not the actual printing. The Jeff Easley wizard cover, orange spine, UPC, ISBN, and $15 price identify it as the later tenth-print configuration. TSR reused the outdated sixth-printing statement in several later versions.

Positives

• Boards, spine, and text block appear attached

• Interior pages remain readable

• No missing pages are evident from the photographs

• Interior printing and illustrations generally look clean

• Jeff Easley cover edition remains immediately recognizable

Detractions

• Large area of surface loss across the lower front cover

• Heavy rubbing and scuffing on both covers

• Substantial wear at the spine ends and corners

• Water staining along portions of the lower page margins and endpapers

• Large former-owner inscription across the front endpapers

• General age toning, grime, and handling wear

• Some separation or weakening is visible around the cover hinges, although the book remains together