Wet Visions: The Rainthology: A Collection of Soluble Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Wet Visions: The Rainthology: A Collection of Soluble Stories
  • Author: Cyn Mason
  • Year: 1988
  • ISBN-10: 0940841169
  • Publisher: Hypatia Press
  • Price: $15.00
  • Pages: 223
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Wet Visions: The Rainthology
  • Notes:
    • Prepared for Norwescon X (March 24-27, 1988) in Tacoma, Washington. Publication date from this.
    • Printed on green paper with fluorescent green endpapers.
    • The Science-Fantasy Publishers by Chalker & Owings (3rd Edition, page 242) states that there were 865 copies and has a breakdown of the states:
      50 "proof" copies bound in light blue paper (unsigned, un-numbered, not for sale).
      9 copies bound in bound dark green leather, printed on linen paper (unsigned and un-numbered, not for sale).
      56 copies bound in dark green leather with color illustration by William Warren, Jr. tipped in and signed by "several contributors". 26 of these copies were lettered A-Z and 30 numbered "...with numbers below 50." $35.00.
      750 copies bound in green skivertex. 700 were numbered and sold for $15.00. 50 were marked "PC" and not offered for sale.
    • Copyright page states that there was a paper edition but this does not appear to have been produced.
    • Publication financed by the editor after the previous funding fell through.
    • Copies were bound unsigned and authors were corned at the convention to sign whatever was available at that moment. Because of this some copies have no signatures and others are signed by one or more contributors.
    • Some copies did not have numbers and the publisher numbered them on-the-fly at the convention trying not to re-use numbers. Consequently there are observed numbers above the 700 copies officially listed. Some duplicate numbers may exist.
    • Illustrations by Lela Dowling: Frontispiece, 219.
    • Illustrations by Steve Oldfin: 217.
    • Illustrations by Zak Pasco: 4, 148.
    • Illustrations by Randy "Tarkas" Hoar: 8, 16, 34, 52, 76, 96, 128, 152, 172, 192.
    • Does not appear in the Library of Congress or Worldcat/OCLC.
    • Reginald3 shows "Hywetia Press (sic)" as publisher.