The Way Down the Hill / The Pink of Fading Neon

Overview:

• Title: The Way Down the Hill / The Pink of Fading Neon
• Author: Tim Powers, James P. Blaylock
• Year: 1986
• ISBN-10: 0939879069
• Publisher: Axolotl Press
• Price: $65.00
• Pages: [vii]+31+[vi]+8
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: The Way Down the Hill
• Notes:
  • Bound dos a dos ("Ace Double"-style).
  • Plain dustjackets with type only. Type embossed in silver on leather-bound copies.
  • Introductions are on un-numbered pages on each side. Page listings here arbitrarily sorted with the Powers side before the Blaylock side.
  • All copies signed by Charles de Lint, James P. Blaylock, Edward Bryant and Tim Powers,
  • Limitation page lists 670 copies split as follows:
    20 unspecified copies (probably the leather-bound) not for sale.
    50 copies bound in leather and numbered 1-50. [this listing]
    200 copies bound in cloth and numbered 1-200.
    400 copies bound in paper and un-numbered.

  • The Science-Fantasy Publishers by Chalker & Owings (3rd Edition, 1991, page 62) lists 683 copies split as follows:
    10 copies bound in red leather and used as presentation copies and not for sale.
    62 copies bound in gray leather, 12 used as presentation copies and not for sale, 50 numbered 1-50. [this listing]
    211 copies bound in dark gray cloth, 11 used as presentation copies and not for sale, 200 numbered 1-200.
    400 copies bound in light gray paper and stapled into wraps, un-numbered.

  • Copies first appeared at Orycon '86 (November 7 - November 9, 1986). Publication date based on this.
  • No LCCN.
  • The OCLC record lists all ISBNs of this title but probably refers to the paper edition.