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BookTerry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic - Colin Smythe - Hardcover - UK - 0861400895 (1983)
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| ppint. 22nd Apr 2024 | 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. | |
| ppint. 22nd Apr 2024 | 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 | |
| ppint. 10th May 2021 | transworld publishers corgi books p/b sixteenth or seventeenth° printing bearing new cover art by stephen player (''vitruvian turtle'', unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.99, $11.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand; can. $5.99 vertically on front cover by top spine 240pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, two end pp. advertising there is a clarecraft text advertisement at foot of p.238, last page of novel, before the end two pages. ° - yr hmbl srppnt. wasn't greatly impressed with this alternative cover, and didn't keep a copy: it appears to be the sixteenth corgi books p/b printing, but i'm not sure whether it wasn't the seventeenth or even the eighteenth corgi books printing; the printing history (quoted above) fails to note when the text was re-set in larger type, and the extent of the p/b - its pagination - thereby increased, which yr hmbl srppnt. noted at the time in the cumulative terry pratchett bibliography i wrote and maintained, and of which change i advised leo breebart, keeper of the annotated pratchett file™, at the time, as it affected the apf. | |
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