The oldest SW item I own is an August 1977 (15th printing) edition of the original Star Wars novelization. Although this version was printed about a year or so after the first edition, it is for all intents and purposes the exact same book as the first paperback, minus the little “review” of the film added to the cover.

Other than that my oldest merchandise has to be comics. I did get three Kenner figures a few years back, but I have no idea when exactly they were made and considering how ridiculously cheap I got them for they might even be fakes for all I know.

However, I do know that the first Norwegian Star Wars annual (see photo below) which was printed in early 1978 and it’s also the first piece of SW merchandise ever made available in Norway in general. Norway didn’t get much in terms of SW comics until a regular series started in 1983, but I do have all the annuals released before that.

I also own a copy Marvel’s Star Wars #11 which was released February 7, 1978, plus several other issues from the same series (only a few of them are included in the photo below). I have a nearly complete collection of the Marvel comics published between ANH and ESB.

Other than this, at least as far as pre-90’s SW is concerned, I own a UK print of Splinter of the Mind’s Eye that might be from 1978, copies of the remaining two novelizations, a 1983 book-and-record (minus the record) based on Marvel comics’ Droid World and the aforementioned cheap Kenner figures. Most of my collection is from the 90’s and my own childhood in the early 2000’s.