jadehwa.blogg.se - Runestaff

So it wasn’t until a few months later that I discovered that it wasn’t actually that different from Conan, anyway. It contrasted brilliantly with the pulsing purples and browns and blacks of the Conan covers, its swirling surrealism was as far away from Frazetta as I had been.ĭespite all that, I didn’t get around to actually reading it until a few months later, when my friend convinced the librarian to delete the book from the school files and I, somehow, managed to get him to trade me it for a copy of some other book. I remember staring, wide-eyed, at the thing, fascinated the Conan covers might have been brutal and bloody and prominently featured big burly men, but this was strange, this was something different entirely its pulsing yellows and light greens were alien, steeped in the psychedelia of the sixties (which, as the inside of the book told me, was when the books were written), it completely dashed away my expectations, crushed them under an iron-clad boot, made my little eyes wide. (You know, normal, everyday sort of stuff.) I decided to make an exception for The History of the Runestaff, however, mostly because I realized I had been recommending the thing to friends for years, but hadn’t touched it since I was twelve, when one of my friends dug the omnibus edition out of some weird corner in our school’s library, plopped it into my hands and mumbled something about multiple universes. I’m usually too busy fighting neo-Nazis in the far future and wrestling dinosaurs on Mars. Publishers use these marks when books are returned to them.I don’t do re-reads, not often anyway.

Remainder Mark - A remainder mark is usually a small black line or dot written with a felt tip pen or Sharpie on the top, bottom, side page edges and sometimes on the UPC symbol on the back of the book.

If excessively worn, they will be marked as "tray worn."

Flat trays for SPI games are not graded, and have the usual problems.

If excessively worn, they will be marked as "card worn." The cardboard backing of miniature packs is not graded.In most cases, boxed games and box sets do not come with dice.

Due to the nature of loose counters, if a game is unplayable it may be returned for a refund of the purchase price. Boardgame counters are punched, unless noted.Major defects and/or missing components are noted separately.

Example, EX+ is an item between Excellent and Near Mint condition.

A "plus" sign indicates that an item is close to the next highest condition.

When only one condition is listed, then the box and contents are in the same condition.

Boxed items are listed as "code/code" where the first code represents the box, and the second code describes the contents.