1.1 The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett Bibliography)
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This article is from the Terry Pratchett Bibliography FAQ, by p.pinto ppint@lspace.org with numerous contributions by others.
1.1 The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett Bibliography)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Colour of Magic
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) (cvr art: Alan Smith)
%D 11/83
ISBN 0-86140-089-5 [this edition now out of print]
%I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) (cvr art: Alan Smith)
%D [?11/83]
ISBN
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 1985 [re-set, c.1993/4 i think. (ppint.)]
ISBN 0-552-12475-3
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) (+ intro by Terry; new cover art - by Josh Kirby)
%D 1989
ISBN 0-86140-324-X
%I Signet (mmp/b)
%D /87 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-15705-2
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1993
ISBN 0-552-14017-1
%I ROC (mmp/b)
%D
ISBN 0-451-45112-0
%I Isis (six-cassette audio/b)
%D 1995
ISBN 1-85695-800-0
%I Victor Gollancz (miniature h/cvr)
%D 1995
ISBN 0-575-06165-0
there is also a large-print h/cvr edn:
%I Isis
%D (not yet known)
ISBN (not yet known)
1st edition h/cvr blurb (thank-you for the d-j, colin smythe :-) ):
Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in
which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-
flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem
to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic
voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons,
heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery
fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an enter-
taining and bizarre spoof.
h/cvr blurb (of the 1995 printing):
Since the publication of _The Colour of Magic_ in 1983, Terry
Pratchett's Discworld series (described by the _Guardian_ as
`a sequence of unalloyed delight') now has seventeen bestselling
titles currently in print, every one of which has received rapt-
urous reviews. As the American _Publisher's Weekly_ wrote, in
this first volume of the series Rincewind, an inept wizard, takes
on the job of `shepherding a naive actuary, Twoflower, his world's
first tourist, through a series of increasingly hazardous and out-
rageous adventures. Assisting Rincewind's rather inconsistent pow-
ers in protecting Twoflower is the Luggage, a sentient trunk that
follows him through all manner of adversity on its hundreds of
little legs. Heroic barbarians, chthonic monsters, beautiful prin-
cesses and fiery dragons; they're all here, but none of them is
doing business as usual.'
p/b blurb:
Jerome K. Jerome meets _Lord of the Rings_ (with a touch of _Peter
Pan_)...[this first part omitted from the 1994 re-set p/b edition]
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown),
a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out.
There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose
luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only
exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the
planet...
The wackiest and most original fantasy since _Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy_.
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