MORT

United Kingdom

Hardback
Victor Gollancz in association with Colin Smythe, 3,950 copies, 12/11/87 (0-575-04171-4)
Later printings appeared under Gollancz’s sole imprint.

Bookproof
100 copies

Reissued as Royal 8vo hardback
14/11/96 (0-575-06408-0)
Also issued as a promotional edition by W.H.Smith (0-304-36424-X)

Compact edition
Gollancz, 20,000 copies, 16/11/95 (0-575-06167-7)
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, 1995 (Hardback 1-85089-044-7, Paperback 0-7531-5110-3)

Deluxe half-'leather'
BCA’s unseen library: 5,000 copies, 11/02 (CN 110260)

Omnibus
On 22/10/98 Gollancz published DEATH TRILOGY, ‘A Discworld Omnibus’
containing Mort, Reaper Man and Soul Music (0-575-06584-2) with a first printing of 22,000 copies. The advance publicity jackets used as a colour illustration Josh Kirby’s 1974 painting ‘The Grim Reaper’, which showed a view of Death that was ‘everything the Death of the Discworld manifestly is not’ (to quote the author). The published edition used a detail of ‘Death in His Study’ from Eric.

Paperback
Corgi, 111,500 copies, 18/11/88 (0-552-13106-7)

For Christmas 1990 Corgi issued Mort, Sourcery and Wyrd Sisters in a slip case (0-552-00796-X)

WHS Little Reads [the opening pages of the novel, ‘published in association with Corgi to
celebrate the BBC’s Big Read’] 30,000 copies, in 7/03 (0-552-21221-0)

New issue, with black/gold photographic design cover, on sale at same time as Kirby edition, 1/9/04 (0-552-15261-7)

Mort

USA
Paperback
NAL/Signet, 4/89 (0-451-15923-3) (with Kirby cover)

2nd printing
Issued under Roc imprint (0-451-45113-9)
This was the last of the American editions to use Josh Kirby’s cover illustrations

US Book club
Science Fiction Book Club (ref. 14838) (Jacket art by Jill Bauman)

HarperTorch, cover illus. Ben Perrini, 2/01 (0-06-102068-0)
This 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.

Brazilian/Portuguese
O aprendiz de Morte, trs. Roberto DeNice
Conrad, 11/02 (85-87193-85-6)

Bulgarian
Ìîðò, trs. Mirela Khristova
Vuzev, 8,600 copies, 8/95 (954-422-038-0)
New edition trs. Vladimir Zarkov
Vuzev/Akhont-V, 2002 (954-422-070-4)

Chinese/mainland

Chinese/mainland paperback 2007

(simplified)
Science Fiction World Magazine, 2007 (978-7-5364-6258-8)

Croatian
Mort, trs. Drago ?tajduhar
Marjan Tisak, 2004 (953-214-039-5)

Czech
Mort, trs. Jan Kantörek
Talpress, 8,000 copies, 11/94 (80-85609-55-X)
paperback
2006 (80-7197-279-7)

Omnibus, with Equal Rites with pencil illustrations by Paul Kidby
Talpress, 2009 (978-80-7197-371-3)

Danish
DÝdens L³rling, trs. Hans Palle Mortensen
Borgens, 2004 (87-21-02440-5)

Dutch
Dunne Hein, trs. Venugopalan Ittekot (pseud. of Ruurd Groot)
Het Spectrum, 7,000 copies, 1992 (90-274-2995-2)

Reissue
Mynx, 2008 (978-90-225-5116-5)

Omnibus
Schijfwereldomnibus nr.2 (with Sourcery and Wyrd Sisters)
Het Spectrum, 5,000 copies, 8/98 (90-274-6536-3)

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

Estonian Hard Back - jacket illus. Hillar Mets

Estonian
Mort, trs. Allan Eichenbaum
Varrak (jacket illus.Hillar Mets) 1,500 copies, 19/1/00 (9985-3-0243-5)

Finnish
Mort, trs. Margit Salmenoja, Karisto, 1994 (951-23-3372-4)

Paperback
Karisto, 2000 (9-51-23-4110-7)

French
Mortimer, trs. Patrick Couton
L’Atalante, 11/94 (2-905158-90-5)
Paperback
Pocket, 10/98 (2-266-08068-7)

German
Gevatter Tod, trs. Andreas Brandhorst
Heyne (SF/Fantasy series 06/4706), 1990 (3-453-04290-5)

Reissued in Heyne’s general Allgemeine Reihe series (01/9543) 1995 (3-453-08850-6) with the Kirby’s cover illustration for Wyrd Sisters, which necessitated a change of the cover on that title. This was corrected with the 1998 printing.
(The title page also has an error – Sheinwelt instead of Scheibenwelt.)

Reissued in 09/2000 with new cover lettering (01/12187, 0-453-17060-1)

Republished
Piper, 08/04 (3-492-28504-X) Revised cover design

Bookclub hardback edition
derclub, 2001 (00207 1)

25^th Discworld anniversary edition
4/08 (978-3-492-28628-2)

Double volume
with Guards! Guards!
Heyne, 10/2000 (3-453-16879-8) Tipp des Monats 23/165

Reissued
Piper, 7/07 (978-3-492-28625-1)

Revised design 9th printing, 12/09 (978-3-492-28504-9)

Greek
Qanathforos Bohqos [Thanatephoros Boethos], trs. LilÂ Ioannidou
Ekdoseis Para Pente, 1996 (no ISBN given) Vita Brevis

Hebrew
;&&/ ;3&9;, trs. Kvryt Sraby,
Kinneret, 1996 (965-286-528-1)

Hungarian
Mort, a Halál Kisinasa, trs. Dr Anikó Sohár
Cherubion Könyvkiadó, 4,344 copies, 24/8/98 (963-9110-24-8)

Italian
Omnibus
Mort l’Apprendista, in Il Mondo del Disco: La Seconda Trilogia (with Sourcery and Wyrd Sisters)
trs. Antonella Pieretti, Mondadori, 10/92 (88-04-36520-X)

Mort l’Apprendista - Italian cover

Pocket book
TEA (Salani), copertina by Giovanni Manzoni, 4/02 (88-7818-696-1)

Japanese
[Shinigamino Yakata] trs. Norito Kuga
H.Kawaguchi/Sanyusha, 10/7/97 (4-88322-621-2)

Norwegian
Dødens Læregutt, trs. Per Malde
Tiden Norsk, 2,000 copies, 3/4/2000 (82-10-04538-5)

Polish
Mort, trs. Piotr W.Cholewa, Fantastyka S-ka/ PrószyÕski i S-ka, 1996 (83-86868-52-X)
Reissue 11/04 (83-7255-877-9)

Hardback
Prószyński i S-ka SA, 2002 (83-7337-272-5)

Portuguese
1) Mort, trs. Paula Reis
Caminho, 8,000 copies, 3/92 (972-21-0735-6)
2) Mort, trs. Mário Dias Correia
Temas & Debates, 2/04 (972-759-557-X)

Bookclub
Circulo de Leitores, 12/04 (972-42-3320-0)

Romanian
Mort, trs. Domnica Macri
Noesis, 2003 (973-85637-5-5)

Russian
1) Ìîð, ó÷åíèê Ñìåðòè, [Mor-uchenik Smerti], trs. Svemlany Zhuzhunava
Azbuka/Terra, 10,000 copies, 1998 (5-7684-0369-8)
2) Eksmo, 10,100 copies, 11/01

Double volume with Reaper Man
Eksmo, 5,000 copies, 23/10/02 (5-699-0205-0)

Serbian/Yugoslav
Mort, trs. Dejan Papi*
Laguna/ReVision in their Octarin series 1,000 copies, 1999 (86-7436-002-5)

Spanish
Mort, trs. Cristina Macía assisted by Celia Filipetto
Martínez Roca, 10/91 (84-270-1559-3)

Paperback
Plaza & Janés, 1/98 (col. Jet 84-01-46161-8, vol.342/3 84-01-47941-X)

To be reissued by [!]Debols!llo [Plaza & Janés], (84-9759----)

Bookclub
(84-226-4245-X) no. 24638

Kiosk Edition
Altaya, 2008 (978-84-487-2294-4)

Swedish
Paperback
Mort, trs. Olle Sahlin, Target Games, 1992 (91-7898-153-0)

Hardback
Wahlströms, 1997 (91-32-32138-4)

Paperback
Wahlströms, 1998 (91-32-43146-5)

Slovakian
Mort, trs. Vladislav Gális
Talpress, 1,500 copies in 1/06 (80-7197-279-7)

Slovenian
Ucila

Turkish
Mort, trs. Ümit Tosun
Ithaki, 2000 (975-6902-78-7)

14/01/2010