Between Two Worlds / Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle

Overview:

• Title: Between Two Worlds / Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle
• Author: Terry Carr, Bob Shaw
• Year: 1986
• ISBN-10: 0915368889
• Publisher: NESFA Press
• Pages: 68+103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: Virra
• Notes:
  • This record is for the slipcased edition was cloned from hardcover edition's record. The publisher's web page is the source for the ISBN and other details. It includes the statement: Boxed state, 5-1/4" x 7-1/4", vi+68pp. (Carr), iv+103pp. (Shaw), ISBN 0-915368-88-9, 225 copies specially bound, numbered, and signed by the authors, $20.00 at the convention, $30.00 afterwards (this state sold out at the convention), August 1986. out of print!
  • This publication is a dos-à-dos style hardcover with both sides containing a collection of short stories.
  • Stated "first edition" and assumed "first printing." Note that the publication states "1986" on the dust jacket flyleaves, title pages, and copyright pages while the NESFA Press web site lists the publication date as August 1986. Locus1 has September 1986.
  • There is an "Acknowledgments" essay on page viii of the Between Two Worlds side that ends with "Andy Cowan, Editor" over "Marlboro, MA" over "June 1986".
  • The copyright page states "This is a limited edition of 1000. The first 225 being a numbered, slipcased edition" and "International Standard Book No. / 0-915368-33-1 (regular edition) / 0-915368-88-9 (slipcased edition)". The jacket flyleaves repeat the limited edition statement but also add that the 225 slipcased copies were "... specially bound, and autographed."
  • The price is not stated on either the dust jacket nor the publication itself. The NESFA Press sold it for $20 at ConFederation 1986 and for $30.00 afterwards. As it sold out at the convention it was never available at the $30 price.