EQUAL RITES
First published by Victor Gollancz in association with Colin Smythe on 15th January 1987

Equal Rites - Estonian Edition

Estonian Edition : Varrak

 

United Kingdom
Hardback
Victor Gollancz in association with Colin Smythe
, 2850 copies, (no book-proofs)
15/1/87 (0-575-03950-7)
Later printings appeared under Gollancz’s sole imprint.

Reissued as Royal 8vo hardback
14/11/96 (0-575-06410-2)
 
Also issued as a promotional edition by W.H.Smith
2001 (0-304-36425-8)

Compact edition
Gollancz, 20,000 copies, 16/11/95 (0-575-06166-9)
The four Compact Editions were also sold as a set in a slipcase entitled Compact Discworlds 1-4 (0-575-06236-3)

Large Print
Isis, 1994 (1-85695-387-4)

Deluxe half-'leather'
BCA’s unseen library: 7,000 copies, 11/01 (CN7218)
 

Paperback
Corgi,
61,000 copies, 13/11/87 (0-552-13105-9)
Reset 1994, increasing pagination from 208 to 288 pages
 
For Christmas 1989 Corgi issued the first 3 Discworld volumes in a slip case (0-552-00774-9)

  New issue, with black/gold photographic design cover, on sale at same time as Kirby edition, 9/04 (0-552-15260-9)

Corgi issued for Ottakars 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)

Omnibus
On 30/8/94 [or 27/9/94], Gollancz issued THE WITCHES TRILOGY, ‘A Discworld Omnibus’
containing Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, and Witches Abroad (0-575-05896-X)
The first printing of 10,000 copies exclusive to W.H.Smith Ltd for six months, subsequent printings for general sale.

Equal Rites

USA
Paperback
NAL/Signet (with Kirby cover) 9/88 (0-451-15704-4)
Issued with Roc imprint (0-451-45092-2)

Harper Paperbacks, cover illus. Ben Perrini, 2/00 (0-06-102069-9)
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.

US book club
Science Fiction Book Club 1988 (jacket art by Thomas Kidd) (ref. 13931)

2005 US Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback
Harper Paperbacks, 2005 (0-06-085590-1)

Brazilian/Portuguese
Direitos Iguais Rituais Iguais, trs. Roberto DeNice
Conrad, 2002 (85-87193-41-4)

Bulgarian
Ĺěŕíöčďčđŕíŕ Ěŕăč˙ [Eman~ipirana Magi#], trs. Mirela Khristova
Vuzev, 11,450 copies, 6/94 (954-422-014-3)
Retranslated, by Vladimir Zarkov, 2,000 copies, 19/4/01 (954-422-064-X)

Chinese/mainland

Chinese/mainland paperback

(simplified)
Science Fiction World Magazine, 2007 (978-7-5364-6257-1)

Croatian
Jednakost Rituala, trs. Drago ?tajduhar
Marjan Tisak, 2003 (953-214-060-3)

Czech
1aroprávnost, trs. Jan Kantörek
Talpress, 7,000 copies, 6/94, (80-85609-54-1)

Danish
1) Heksekunst og Hřjere Magi, trs. Hans Palle Mortensen, Tellerup, 1991 (87-88133-31-1)
2) Den Ottende Datter, trs. Hans Palle Mortensen, Borgen, 5/04 (87-21-02188-0)

Dutch
Meidezeggenschap, trs. Venugopalan Ittekot (pseud. of Ruurd Groot)
Het Spectrum, 7,000 copies, 1992 (90-274-2901-4)

Reissue
Mynx, 2008 (978-90-225-5115-8)

Omnibus
Schijfwereldomnibus nr.1
(with The Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic)
Het Spectrum, 4,000 copies, 1998 (90-274-6338-7)

    Reissue: Uitgeverij M/De Boekerij, 4/03 (90-225-3496-0)

Double Volume
De Schijfwereld, (Equal Rites and Mort),07/2005, (90-2254261-0)

Estonian
Vőluv Vőrdsus, trs. Aet Varik
Varrak (jacket illus. Hillar Mets), 1,500 copies, 15/6/99 (9985-3-0177-3)

Finnish
Johan Riitti!, trs. Marja Sinkkonen
Karisto, 2001 (951-23-4242-1)
paperback
Karisto, 2005, (951-23-4403-3)

French
La Huitičme Fille, trs. Patrick Couton
L’Atalante, 4/94 (2-905158-84-0)

Paperback
Pocket, 3/98 (2-266-08069-5)

German
Das Erbe des Zauberers, trs. Andreas Brandhorst
Heyne, 1989 (3-453-03451-1)
With cover illustration a detail from ‘The Arrival of the Ark’ from Josh Kirby’s The Voyage of the Ayeguy
(Though credited to Ron Kirby, Josh's baptismal name)
Reprinted with the correct cover illustration in 2000.

Reissued in Heyne’s Allgemeine Reihe series, 9/2000 (1/12185, 3-453-17058-X)

Republished: Piper, 01/05 (3-492-28502-2)

Bookclub hardback edition
derclub, 2001 (00206 3)

 
Double volume
Die Schiebenwelt (with The Light Fantastic/Das Licht der Phantasie)
1994 (3-453-07339-8) (with the Kirby Majipoor Chronicles picture)

 Bookclub edition of above
Das Licht der Phantasie, Das Erbe des Zauberers
Boulevard Taschenbuch (Goldmann)
5/98 (ref. 00538 9)
(Using The Light Fantastic illustration)

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

Greek
Neurikes Magisses [Neyrikes Magisses], trs. Lil Ioannidou
Alter Para Pente, 1994 (99-8011-395-2)

Hebrew
4:, *1(-&5, (Polchanei Keshef) trs. Nurit Sharabi
Kinneret, 12/96 (965-286-496-X)

Hungarian
Egyenjogú Rítusok,
trs. István Nemes and Judit Nemes
Cherubion Könyvkiadó, 4,200 copies, 8/99 (963-9110-55-8
)

Equal Rites - Italian TEA edition

Italian
1) L’Arte della Magia, in I Colori della Magia
(
with The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic), trs. Natalia Callori, Mondadori, 1991 (88-04-35085-7)
2) L’Arte della Magia, trs. Natalia Callori
Tea (Salani/Longanesi), cover illus. Serena Riglietti, 3/00 (88-7818-268-0)

Equal Rites - Japanese Edition

Japanese
[Madoshi Esukarina] trs. Norito Kuga
H.Kawaguchi/Sanyusha, 10/7/97 (4-88322-622-0)

Lithuanian
Eridanas (not yet published)

Norwegian
Trollmannens stav, trs. Rolf Andersen
Tiden Norsk, 2,500 copies, 21/9/99
(82-10-04418-4)

Polish
Równoumagicznienie, trs. Piotr W. Cholewa

Paperback
Fantastyka S-ka/ PrószyŐski i S-ka,1996 (83-86868-70-8)

Hardback
Prószy
Őski i S-ka, 2002 (83-7337-219-9)

Paperback
PrószyŐski i S-ka, 2006 (83-7469-257-X)

Portuguese
Ritos Iguais, trs.Mária Dias Correai
Temas & Debates, 11/03 (972-759-556-1)

Bookclub
Circulo de Leitores,
7/04 (972-42-3231-X; 1017209)

Romanian
Magie de ambe sexe
, trs. Domnica Macri
Noesis, 4500-5000 copies, 2003 (973-
85637-3-9)

Russian
1) Ňâîđöű Çŕęëčíŕíčé  [Tvor~y ZaklinaniŃ ], trs. Iryny Kravtsova
Azbuka, 10,000 copies, 1997 (5-7684-0362-0)
2) Eksmo, 10,100 copies, 10/01 (5-04-008464-1)

New edition
2006 (5-699-15628-3)

Serbian/Yugoslav
Jednakost Rituala
, trs.
Dejan Papi*
Laguna/ReVision in their Octarin series, 1999 (86-7436-001-7)

Slovakian
Čarovné Práva, trs.Vladislav Gális
Talpress, 2005 (80-7197-255-X)

Spanish
Ritos Iguales, trs. Cristina Macía,
Martínez Roca, 1991 (84-270-1521-6)

Bookclub
Circulo de Lectores (cover and endpaper illus. Antonio Muńos)
1998 (84-226-7398-3)

Paperback
Plaza & Janés, 1/98 (col. Jet 84-01-46161-8, vol.342/3, 84-01-47942-8)
reissued in [!]Debolls!llo series. 9/02 (84-8450-783-1)
11/04 (84-9793-020-7)

Swedish
Trollkarlens Stav, trs. Olle Sahlin,
Target Games, 1991 (91-7898-125-5)
Wahlströms 1998 (91-32-32237-2)
2nd (paperback) Wahlströms, 10/2000 (91-32-43258-5)

Turkish
E
ęit Haklar/Eęit Ayinler, trs. Gamze SarĎ
Ithaki, 9/00 (975-6902-63-9)

22/09/2007