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Post Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 1:53 pm 
 

After several years of looking, I finally acquired a first edition copy of Carcosa Supplement V.  From my understanding there are three editions, the first printed by Geoffery McKinney, the second noted at the bottom of this thread, and the third printed by Lamentations of the Flaming Princess.

Curious about the first edition print run, I reached out to Geof. He replied quickly and provided the info below. If you have additional info, please add it to this thread. Thanks!
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There never were any "print runs" of the 1st edition Carcosa book. I printed them all out at home. Every time I would get an order for Carcosa, I would print some copies to fill the order. "Print on demand", in other words (like lulu).

None of the copies has any artwork other than the front cover illustration I did.

I do not recall exact numbers of how many copies of Carcosa I printed, but it was certainly more than 300 and fewer than 350.

Most copies have a tan cardstock cover. However, after I depleted THREE Hobby Lobby stores of all their tan cardstock, I had to move to a darker brown cardstock. The final two dozen or so copies I printed I used plain white cardstock (since, after all, Eldritch Wizardry and Gods, Demi-gods & Heroes both used white cardstock).

Perhaps 15% of the printed copies (so around 50 of the copies) were referred to as the "Expurgated Edition". These copies have sentences deleted from the pages containing the descriptions of the sorcerous rituals. The deleted sentences were those dealing with human sacrifices. I did not change the formatting of the rest of the book. Instead, those pages with the deleted sentences simply had more white space on them than on the regular edition.



The second edition, boxed set.
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Post Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 12:55 am 
 

Amazing, i wasnt aware of the boxed second edition!!!

It seems very similar to the rpg issued by elf lair game (sorry i do not remeber even the name!)... It was a 10-copies edition of a clone of the white box, just like this one!!!


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Post Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 12:28 pm 
 

I think Spellcraft & Swordplay (from Elf Lair Games) had a collector's box set. That's probably what you are thinking of. :)



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Post Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 6:55 pm 
 

There were 30 copies of that box set btw.


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Post Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 12:29 am 
 

rredmond wrote in Carcosa Supplement V 1st Edition:I think Spellcraft & Swordplay (from Elf Lair Games) had a collector's box set. That's probably what you are thinking of. :)

Exactly!!!

Sorry Bill, i thought it was a 10-print run... But it doesnt change too much...


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Post Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 1:09 am 
 

No need to apologize. I just thought you (and others) would like to know!


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Post Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 1:42 pm 
 

I thought there were some definite print runs on Carcosa 1e (Guy may have tracked this data too, come to think of it!), but perhaps I'm just remembering (or misremembering;) ) the print run figures. 131 sticks in my head for the first run, but perhaps that was uncensored vs expurgated.  I'll dig up my copies to see what they say.

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edit 5/31:  I may have been thinking of James Maliszewski's Cursed Chateau, perhaps....


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Post Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:17 pm 
 

We sold a 1st print Carcosa at NTRPG con auction this year, and I absolutely forgot to describe it as the unexpurgated version! It went for $300, BTW.

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