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 Martin’s 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 L’Atalante 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) Double volume with Der Zauberhut [Sourcery] In Heyne’s 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) Bookclub edition of above Boulevard Taschenbuch, Bertelsmann, 5/98 (00539 7) (But with Kirby’s 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. Lil 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