Latest Updates - Terry Pratchett

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Comment by ppint.:

harpercollinspublishers harpertorch mmpb first printing, first merkin p/b edition

cover art by chip kidd (? check: it differs from that on the 5/2001 harpercollins h/cvr which is credited to him as designer); it's a silhouette of a black cloaked, hooded, gloved figure on a black horse riding over yellow roman numerals, on a slightly greyish turquoisey-blue background, with a.black vertical band down the spine edge bearing three small boxed carriage clocks; title and author in orange, in mostly lower case (title somewhat randomly) across whole of width of front cover; a yellow disc with pinked edge overlaps the black band onto the background above the horse's tail bearing "celebrating 25 extraordinary years of discworld" in five lines of black type
cover price $6.99
382pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. include excerpt from "night watch" (2002), q.v.

refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to determine which printing is held: the lowest number remaining gives this, as a digit is dropped progressively with each further printing; at least six printings known, the sixth being published in 5/2004; pinked-edge yellow disc omitted from cover of at least one of these later printings

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Comment by annaloog:

Thanks, David, for the clarification.

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Comment by David Whiteley ●:

Added title page showing full title "The City Watch Trilogy".

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Comment by annaloog:

Is the definite article included in the title on the title page? I don't see it on the dust jacket.

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Comment by ppint.:

merkin penguin group roc imprint mmpb undated° second printing, seventh nal/signet/roc mmpb printing over-all

cover art by josh kirby (signed, retained from all but earliest previous mmpb printings)
cover price (canada $5.99) • u.s. $4.99 (reportedly also £4.99 "export only" (check this!†)
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - date obtained by interpolation into (canadian & merkin) cover prices for roc imprint mmpbs of this extent: 1-4/1992 would've been (canada $5.50) • u.s. $4.50; 5/1992 is the earliest that 256pp. roc mmpbs were priced ($5.99) • $4.99; and to tie in to known date of publication of roc mmpb of "reaper man", the only terry pratchett roc mmpb published in 1992 after "moving pictures" (1/1992).

† - it seems a little unlikely, to put it mildly - but isn't impossible: it could've been a mistake made by the merkin penguin group - a number of rpg & war game spin-off roc mmpbs published by arrangement with fasa inc. were legitimately exported to the uk, bearing £ uk prices - and copies might even have been legitimately distributed in some other countries in the commonwealth still using £uk, by arrangement with transworld publishers ltd.

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Comment by ppint.:

dutton penguin new american library (signet/) roc imprint mmpb undated° first printing, sixth nal/signet mmpb printing over-all

cover art by josh kirby signed, retained from previous two signet mmpb printings
cover price (canada $4.95 (check)) • u.s. $3.95
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - month & year date from locus

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Comment by ppint.:

dutton penguin new american library signet imprint mmpb undated° fourth printing

cover art by josh kirby (signed, credited; reused from corgi uk p/b (1985), q.v.)
cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - publication month & year date taken from locus


refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from:

near-identical undated signet mmpb fifth printing, which retains cat#, isbn,
cover art by josh kirby
cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50


the next new american library signet books mmpb bears the then new roc imprint,
together with new cat#, and new isbn,
but is nevertheless accounted its sixth mmpb printing

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Comment by ppint.:

new american library signet imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first merkin p/b edition

cover art by vicente segrelles (unsigned, uncredited; collected in "la fantasia de segrelles" (1986), q.v.)
cover price (canada $3.50) • u.s. $2.95
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first signet printing, may, 1985

check publishing history also for indicium of signet mmpb third printing,
not yet seen recorded nor seen by myself, which may be near-identical.

(the fourth signet mmpb printing definitely bears josh kirby's cover art, new cat# and a new isbn)

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Comment by ppint.:

this was a first attempt to try selling the discworld books to ''non fantasy-readers'' and any others who might've been put off by josh kirby's idiosyncratically and highly spiritedly atmospheric and immensely successfully eye-catching - but undeniably somewhat garish - covers.

the sales velocity of this printing° did not compare well with those bearing josh kirby's art, and it was not reprinted. c. 15,800 copies printed and distributed by transworld publishers ltd.

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Comment by ppint.:

barcode number truncated by too-small field: 978-0552-13893-2-00399

indicia publishing history:

colin smythe edition published 1983
corgi edition published 1985
corgi edition reprinted 1985
corgi edition reprinted 1987 (twice)
corgi edition reprinted 1988 (twice)
corgi edition reprinted 1989 (twice)
corgi edition reprinted 1990 (twice)
corgi edition reprinted 1991 (twice)
corgi edition reprinted 1992 (three times) (- why not "thrice" ?)
corgi edition reissued 1993

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Comment by carryonsidney:

There is a Waterstones hardback version of this book with a "Bespoke design and bonus doodles from Terry".