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United Kingdom

Hardback (Cover illustration by Alan Smith) Colin Smythe, 506 copies, 24/11/1983 (0-86140-089-5)
2nd Edition (Cover illustration by Josh Kirby)
New introduction by Terry Pratchett Colin Smythe, 1,033 copies, 11/1989 (0-86140-324-X)
Compact Edition Gollancz,
20,000 copies, 16/11/1995 (0-575-06165-0)
The four Compact Editions were also sold as a set in a
slipcase
entitled Compact Discworlds 1-4 (0-575-06236-3)
Omnibus
The First Discworld Novels
8th May 1999,
Colin Smythe published The Colour of Magic (without
Terry's 1989 introduction)
and The
Light Fantastic
in a single volume under this title (0-86140-421-1)
Deluxe half-'leather'
BCA’s unseen library 7,000 copies, 11/2001 (CN7198)
Large Print Isis,
400 copies in each binding, 10/1994
(Hardback 1-85695-324-6, Paperback 1-85695-364-5)
Commemorative 21st Anniversary
Edition
Doubleday in association with Colin Smythe,
1/9/2004 (0-385-60864-0)
Corgi issued
for Ottakars 1,000 special signed, slip-cased copies
of The Colour of Magic,
together with a ‘Discworld Starter Pack’
a slipcase containing
paperbacks of The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic and
Equal Rites 1/9/04 (0-552-76991-6)
Paperback (with Josh Kirby cover)
Corgi, 26,000 copies, 15/1/85 (0-552-12475-3) Reset 1994, increasing pagination from 240 to 288 pages (but without new
ISBN)
For Christmas 1989 Corgi issued the first 3 Discworld
volumes in a slip case (0-552-00774-9)

Reissued
With Stephen Player cover Corgi 11/2/93, 15,800 copies,
11/2/93 (0-552-13893-2) (never reprinted)
A
trial design with an illustration by Chris Brown was also printed, but
rejected. A few copies of this cover exist.
New issue, with black/gold photographic
design cover, on sale at same time as Kirby edition
03/05 (0-552-15292-7)
A facsimile edition
was published by Hill House Publishers in 2006.
This has two jackets, the original 1983 version and the 1989 Kirby
version both wrapped around the book.
USA
Hardback (With Alan Smith cover illustration) St Martins Press,
4,000 copies, 11/83 (0-312-15084-9)
USA Book Club (With Alan Smith cover illustration) Science Fiction Book Club's Main Selection May
1984 (ref.06199)
The
first printing was in quarter deep green cloth with cloth-pattern
embossed paper covered boards, and blocked gold on spine. The title
verso gives the printer/binder as the Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group.
Later printings lack the name of
the printer and were bound in dark greenish-blue paper-covered boards,
with printed blue-green lettering on spine. The text was reset for the
book club edition, and has 184
pages as opposed to the St Martin’s Press - and Smythe - editions
which have 206pp.
After the first UK edition sold out and
before producing the 1989 printing, Colin Smythe
imported a total of 400 copies of this book club edition for
sale in the UK. These would have had some form of Smythe price sticker
on them.
US Paperback (Name of cover artist not given, but probably Tom Kidd) NAL/Signet, 5/85 (0-451-13577-6)
5th printing (0-451-15705-2) (with Josh Kirby cover)
6th printing Issued under Roc imprint (0-451-45112-0)
1st HarperCollins edition HarperPrism, cover illus. Ben Perrini, 2/00 (0-06-102071-0)
This
promotional edition also contains the 16 page section entitled ‘The
World of
Terry Pratchett’ that appears at the end of the advance
reader’s edition of The Fifth Elephant.

Trade Paperback
Harper Paperbacks, 2005 (0-06-085592-4)
Omnibus
Rincewind the Wizzard
On 3/6/99
the US Science Fiction Book Club issued as a selection, the Collector’s
Issue # 1 1999,
cover illus. Tom Kidd (0-7394-0345-1, ref. 00286) containing
The
Colour
of
Magic, The
Light
Fantastic, Sourcery and
Eric.
Brazilian/Portuguese
A Cor da Magia, trs. Márcio Grillo El-Jaick, Conrad
Livros, 10/01 (85-87193-39-2)
Bulgarian
Öâåòúò íà Ìàãèÿòà
[µvetut
na Magi#ta]
trs. Mirela Khristova
Vuzev, 15,000 copies, 12/92 (954-422-005-4)
Chinese/mainland

(simplified)
Science Fiction World Magazine, 6,000 copies in 2007 (978-7-5364-6255-7)
Croatian
1).
Boja Magije, trs. Predrag
Raos, Bakal, 3,000 copies, 5/93 (953-6117-00-2)
With a translator’s note and guide, pp. 231-234, as to how
names were translated from English to Croatian.
2) Boja Magije,
trs. Drago
?tajduhar
Marjan Tisak, 2002 (953-213-046-2)
Czech
Barva Kouzel, trs. Jan
Kantörek
Talpress, 15,000 copies, 7/93 (80-85609-28-2)
15th / 25th
Anniversary Edition containing
The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic,
Marking not only the 25th
anniversary of Discworld and the 15th anniversary
of its first publication in the Czech language, but also TP’s 60th
birthday.
První Příběhy
ze Zeměplochy
Barva Kouzel a Lehké Fantastično.
Jubilejní Vydání
With a special message from
Terry Pratchett, with reproduction of his signature and scythe, and
pencil illustrations by Paul Kidby.
Hardback
Talpress, 2008 (978-80-7197-332-4)
Danish
1)
Når
Magien Bliver for Broget, trs. Hans Palle Mortensen Host, 1992 (87-14-19137-7)
2) Retitled:
Magiens Farve, Borgen, 9/3/04 (87-21-02186-4)
Dutch
De Kleur van Toverij, trs.
Venugopalan Ittekot (pseud. of Ruurd Groot) Prisma/Het
Spectrum, 5,000 copies,
1991 (90-274-2757-7) reissued by De Boekerij/M, 11/02
(90-225-3385-9)
Reissue
Mynx, 2008 (978-90-225-5113-4)
Omnibus
Published in omnibus volume Schijfwereldomnibus
nr.1 with The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites
Het
Spectrum, 4,000 copies, 1998 (90-274-6338-7)
Estonian
Võlukunsti
Värv, trs. Urmas Alas Varrak, 1,500 copies, 30/10/97 (9985-3-0088-2)
Finnish
Magian
Väri, trs. Marja Sinkkonen,
Karisto,
2000 (951-23-4106-9)
Paperback
Karisto, 2004 (951-23-4475-0)
French
1st. Le Huitième Couleur
trs. Patrick Marcel LAtalante 2/93 (2-905158-67-0) 2nd. new translation, by Patrick Couton, 9/96 (2-84172-039-X)
Paperback
Pocket, 9/97 (2-266-07156-4)
Promotional
edition
Not for sale: Pocket, 9,000 copies, 12/03 (2-266-11140-X)
German
1) Die Farben der Fantasie,
trs. Dagmar Hartman
(cover
illus. Greg Hildebrandt) Goldmann,
12/85 (3-442-23869-2) 2)
Die Farben der Magie, trs. Andreas Brandhorst Heyne,
1992 (3-453-05860-7)
Republished
Piper, 05-2005 (3-492-28510-4)
Bookclub hardback edition
Derclub, 2001 (00204 8)
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Double volume with Der Zauberhut
[Sourcery]
In Heynes Tip des Monat
series no. 23/117: 1995 (3-453-08974-X)
(Using a cover illustration
painted for Robert Rankin's The Sprouts of Wrath)
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Bookclub edition of above
Boulevard Taschenbuch, Bertelsmann, 5/98 (00539
7) (But with Kirbys illustration for the cover of
Sourcery)
Special newspaper
edition
Bild am Sonntag special offer 12/06 (3-89897-529-0)
25th
Discworld anniversary edition
4/08
(978-3-492-28627-5)
Illustrated
edition
illus Stephen Player, Piper , 11/09 (978-3-492-26716-8)
This uses the illustrations commissioned from the artist by Gollancz for
its edition of
The Colour of Magic and The
Light Fantastic (The First Discworld Novels).
Omnibus
Rincewind der Zauberer, containing the first four Rincewind titles
Die
Farben der Magie, Das Licht der Phantasie, Der Zauberhut and
Eric, Heyne, cover illus. Tom Kidd, 7/01 (3-453-18942-6)
Omnibus
Die Magie
der Scheibenwelt, Heyne, 12/02 (3-453-86367-4; 06/9300) The first three Discworld novels in one volume, with a foreword by Neil
Gaiman
Revised cover design 4th printing 10/09 (978-3-492-28519-3)
Reprinted
Piper 08/06 (3-492-28519-8)

Piper
Boulevard, 12/05 (3-492-29144-9)
‘Der Zauber des Wyrmbergs’
[‘The Lure of the Wyrm’] in Tolkiens Erbe
trs. Erik Simon & Friedel Wahren, Piper, 2005 (3,492-70115-0)
Greek
Omnibus
The
first two
Discworld novels in one book.
To Crwma Ths Mageias. To Fws Ths Fantasias,
[To Chroma Tes Mageias. To Phos Tes Phantasias], trs. LilÂ
Ioannidou, Para
Pente, 1992
(99-8007-443-4)
To Crwma
Ths Mageias,
[To Chroma Tes Mageias]
Alter Para Pente, 1994 (no ISBN given)
Reissue
Vita Brevis/ Ekdoseis 2001 (No ISBN)
Hebrew
4:,% 3:7
(Tzeva ha-Keshef), trs. Aya Bar,
Kinneret,
1992 (965-286-266-5) (In spite of contractual agreement to use the Kirby design,
an inappropriate local one was used)
Larger format reprint 1997 using same ISBN as first printing (Correct cover illustration this time)
Hungarian
1) A Mágia
Színe,
trs. Zsolt Kornya and István Nemes,
Pendragon,
1992 (963-8017-02-3)
2) Cherubion were supposed to have published an edition of 2,000
copies, 2001
but I am not certain if issued – rights reverted
11/03.
Icelandic
Litbrigđi Galdranna,
trs. Jón Daníelsson
Tónleikur, 2007 (978-9979-70-354-9)
Italian
Il Colore di Magia, trs. Natalia
Callori 1) Mondadori,
24/4/89 (no ISBN given) (being no. 11 (April 1989) issue of their monthly
Urania
Fantasy series) 2) Tea (Salani/Longanesi) in 2/98 (88-7818-267-2)
I Colori della Magia
Omnibus (with The Light Fantastic and
Equal
Rites) Mondadori 1991 (88-04-35085-7)

Japanese
Disuku Warudo Sodoki, trs. Hitoshi
Yasuda, illus. Masanori Nisikiori Haruki Kadokawa/Kadokawa Shoten, 1992
(4-04-274501-6)

Korean
Sigongsa, 12-2004 (89-527-4195-1)
Norwegian
Magiens Farge,
trs. Rolf Andersen Tiden Norsk,
2,500 copies, 16/4/98 (82-10-04217-3)
a paperback edition is planned
Polish
Kolor Magii, trs. Piotr W. Cholewa in Nowa Fantastyka nos. 4-7 (139-142) Fantastyka S-ka/Prószynskí i S-ka, 1994
(83-85661-65-4)
2003 paperback (83-7337-125-7)
2005 paperback (83-7337-726-3)
Hardback
Prószynskí i S-ka, 2001 (83-7337-024-2)
Special
supermarket edition
Prószyński i S-ka 83-7337-726-3
Portuguese A Cor da Magia, trs. Mário Dias Correia Temas
& Debates, 3,000 copies, 3/03
(972-759-554-5)
Bookclub
Circulo de
Leitores, 12/03 (972-42-3091-0; 1017152)
Romanian
Coloarea
Magiei, trs. Domnica Macri, S.C.Noesis,
2002 (973-85637-0-4)
Russian
1)
Öâåò
Âîëøåáñòâà
[µvet
Vopshebstva],
trs. Iryny Kravtsova
Azbooka/Terra, 25,000 copies, 1997 (5-7684-0345-0) 2) Eksmo,
10,100 copies, 7/01 (5-04-007995-8)
Double
volume
with The Light
Fantastic,
5,000 copies, 14/5/03 (5-699-03074-3)
Serbian/Yugoslav
Boja Magije, trs.
Dejan Papi*
Laguna/ReVision Publishing in their Octarin series,1,000 copies, 23/9/98 (86-7304-011-6)
Slovakian Farba Mágie, trs. Vladislav Gális Talpress, 2003 (80-7197-230-4)
Slovenian
Barva Magije, trs Maja Novak
Vale-Novak, 2004
(961-6221-73-6)
Spanish
Martínez
Roca, El Color de la Magia
1989 (84-270-1341-8)
Paperback Plaza & Janés,
1/98 (col.Jet 84-01-46161-8;
vol.342/1 84-01-47943-6)
Reissued - 8th printing - under their [!]Debols!illo
imprint, 4/03 (84-9759-679-X)
Kiosk Edition
Altaya, 2008 (978-84-487-2291-3)
Swedish
Magins Färg, trs. Olle Sahlin Target Games, 1989 (91-7898-062-3)
2nd Edition (paperback) BW-Pocket/Wahlströms, 1995 (91-32-42992-4)
Turkish
Büyünün
Rengi, trs. Ümit Tosun, Ithaki, 10/99
(975-6902-33-7)
05/11/2009
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