Escape from Kathmandu / Two Views of a Cave Painting & The Idol's Eye

Overview:

  • Title: Escape from Kathmandu / Two Views of a Cave Painting & The Idol's Eye
  • Author: Kim Stanley Robinson, James P. Blaylock
  • Year: 1987
  • ISBN-10: 0939879182
  • Publisher: Axolotl Press
  • Price: $65.00
  • Pages: 75+[4]+16+22
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Escape from Kathmandu
  • Notes:
    • Bound "Ace Double"-style.
    • Page numbering is independent for each side and inconsistent.
      The introduction for the Robinson side appears on numbered pages, the introduction for the Blaylock side on un-numbered pages.
      Incredibly, the page numbering begins AGAIN for "The Idol's Eye."
      Page listings for this entry arbitrarily begin with a "1-" for Robinson and "2-" for Blaylock (Two Views of a Cave Painting) and "3-" for "The Idol's Eye."
    • Cover art from TPB and regular hardcover dustjackets used as frontispieces.
    • Artist credited on copyright page.
    • All copies signed by James P. Blaylock, Dean R. Koontz, Tim Powers and Kim Stanley Robinson but NOT Donna Gordon.

    • Prospectus and limitation page list 900 signed copies split as follows:
      25 copies bound in leather, not offered for sale.
      75 copies bound in leather and numbered 1-75. [This listing]
      300 copies bound in cloth and numbered 1-300
      500 copies bound in paper and not numbered.

    • The Science-Fantasy Publishers by Chalker & Owings (3rd Edition, 1991, page 62) lists 910 signed copies split as follows:
      10 copies bound in red leather and marked as presentation, not offered for sale.
      25 copies bound in blue leather, not offered for sale.
      75 copies bound in blue leather and numbered 1-75. [This listing]
      300 copies bound in dark blue cloth with light blue paper dustjacket and numbered 1-300
      500 copies bound in paper and not numbered.
      They also list the publication date as 1988 and that a small batch of the paper edition made it to east coast dealers with reversed covers (Blaylock cover on Robinson side and vice-versa).

    • No LCCN.
    • This ISBN appears in OCLC/Worldcat 3 times:
      {{OCLC|22582104}} (This entry lists multiple ISBNs and is probably for the paper copies).
      {{OCLC|22582066}} (This entry lists multiple ISBNs and is probably for the paper copies).
      {{OCLC|16850532}} (this one is actually for The Shadow on the Doorstep / Trilobyte).