PYRAMIDS

Winner of BSFA’s Best Novel Award, 1990

United Kingdom

Hardback
Victor Gollancz, 12,300 copies, 15/6/89 (0-575-04463-2)

Book proof
100 copies

Reissued as Royal 8vo hardback
22/5/97 (0-575-06484-6)

Bookclub
BCA 11,500 copies, (CN 6682)

Deluxe half-'leather'
BCA’s unseen library 4,000 copies, 11/03 (CN 119058)

Omnibus
On 20/7/00 Gollancz published THE GODS TRILOGY, ‘A Discworld Omnibus’
containing Pyramids, Small Gods and Hogfather (0-575-07036-6), with a first printing of 11,000 copies

Paperback
Corgi, 2/7/90; reset 1993, increasing pages from 288 to 384 (0-552-13461-9)

New issue, with black/gold photographic design cover, on sale at same time as Kirby edition, 1/9/04 (0-552-15264-1)

Pyramids

USA
Paperback
NAL/Roc, 12/89 (0-451-45044-2) (cover illustration by Darrell K. Sweet)
HarperTorch, cover illus. Ben Perrini, 8/01 (0-06-102065-6)

US book club
Science Fiction Book Club (ref. 18037) (Jacket art by Doug Anderson)

On 6/11/00 the US Science Fiction Book Club issued as a selection TALES OF DISCWORLD,
cover illus. Tom Kidd (0-7394-1391-0, ref. 20042) an omnibus containing Pyramids, Moving Pictures and Small Gods.

Brazilian
Pirâmides, Trs Ludimila Hashimoto
Conrad, 2005, (85-7616-046-3)

Bulgarian
Ïèðàìèäè [Piramidi], trs. Tatiana Kostadinova-Minkovska
Vuzev/Arhont-V, 5,000 copies, 3/5/00 (954-422-054-2)

Croatian
Marjan Tisak [not yet published]

Czech
Pyramidy, trs. Jan Kantörek
Talpress, 10,000 copies, 9/95 (80-85609-69-X)

Dutch
Pyramides (Het Boek van Derwaarts Gaan), trs. Venugopalan Ittekot (pseud. of Ruurd Groot)
Het Spectrum, 7,000 copies, 1993 (90-274-3242-2)

Reissue
Mynx, 2008 (978-90-225-5119-6)

Omnibus
Schijfwereldomnibus nr.3 (with Guards! Guards! and ~~Faust~~ Eric)
Het Spectrum, 5,000 copies 8/99 (90-274-6757-9)

Estonian Hard Back edition - jacket illus. Hillar Mets

Estonian
Püramiidid, trs.Allan Eichenbaum
Varrak (jacket illus. Hillar Mets), 10/01 (9985-3-0454-3)

Finnish
Pyramidit (trs. Mika Kivimäki)
Karisto, 2002 (951-23-4351-7)

Paperback
Karisto, 2006 (951-23-4728-8)

French
Pyramides (Le Livre de la Sortie), trs. Patrick Couton
L’Atalante, 2/96 (2-84172-026-8)

Paperback
Pocket, 04/00 (2-266-09971-X)

German
Pyramiden, trs. Andreas Brandhorst
Heyne (06/4764), 1990 (3-453-04505-X)

This volume contained an advertisement for ‘Maggi 5 Minuten Terrine’ on pages 209-210, which suggested that Teppic might have enjoyed this snack. The author did not share in the humour (or the fee obtained by Heine for its inclusion). Following its discovery, no further contracts were signed with Heyne for Discworld novels and they have since been published by Goldmann (Bertelsmann).

Reissued in Heyne’s Allgemeine Reihe series
9/2000 (1/12188, 3-453-17061-X)
Republished
Piper, 11/04 (3-492-28506-6)

Double volume
Pyramiden and MacBest, no.23/141 in Heyne’s Tip des Monats series
1997 (3-453-12327-1)
Reissued under title
Schlamassel auf der Scheibenwelt, Piper, 09/05 (3-492-28612-7)

Bookclub
derclub, 2003 (05680-4)

25^th Discworld anniversary edition
4/08 (978-3-492-28629-9)

Greek
PuramideV, trs. Anna Papastaurou
Psychogios, 2,000 copies in 5/06 (960-453-026-7)

Hebrew
;&$*/9*5, trs. Orit Kaplan
Kinneret, 1998 (965-286-654-7)

Hungarian
Piramisok, trs. Dr Sohár Anikó
Cherubion Könyvkiadó, 4,024 copies, 28/8/00 (963-9110-90-6)

Italian
Maledette Piramidi, trs. Pier Francesco Paolini
Sonzogno, 1994 (88-454-0665-2)

Paperback
TEA/Salani, copertina by Sonia Aloi & Giovani Manzoni
21/1/04 (88-502-0487-6)

Japanese
[Piramiddo] trs. Norito Kuga
Seichi Momose/Choueisha, 3/3/99 (4-7952-2593-1)

Norwegian
Pyramidene, trs. Torleif Sjøgren-Erichsen
Tiden Norsk, 2,000 copies, 11/01 (82-10-04591-1)

Polish
Piramidy, trs. Piotr W. Cholewa
Fantastyka S-ka/PrószyÕski i S-ka, 1998 (83-7180-378-8)

Hardback
04/2005 (83-7337-994-0)

Portuguese
Pirâmides, trs. Mário Dias Correia
Temas & Debates, 09/2005 (972-759-689-4)

Romanian
Piramide, trs. Bogdan Mih²ileanu
Rao, 12/07 (978-973-103-456-0)

Russian
Ïèðàìèäû, [Pirimidy], trs. V. Sumonova
Eksmo, 10,100 copies, 23/2/01 (5-04-006979-0), reprinted 18/4/01 (5,100 copies)

Double volume
(with Small Gods) Eksmo, 15/1/03 (5-699-02733-5)

Serbian/Yugoslav
Piramide, trs. Dejan Papi*, Laguna/ReVision, 15/6/2000 (86-7436-005-X)

Spanish
Pirómides, trs. Albert Solé, Martínez Roca, 1992 (84-270-1680-8)

Paperback
Plaza & Janés, 6/99 (col. Jet 84-01-46161-8, vol.342/7, 84-01-47947-9)
Reissued by [!]Debols!llo [Plaza & Janés], 11/01 (84-8450-845-5)
2^nd edition in this format 1/04

Kiosk edition
Altaya, 2008 (978-84-487-2295-1)

Swedish
Pyramidfeber, trs. Peter Lindforss
Wahlströms, 1997 (91-32-32166-X)

Paperback
Wahlströms, 1999 (91-32-43211-9)

Turkish
Piramitler, trs. Ümit Tosun
Ithaki, 10/02 (975-8725-04-1)

Hitherto all the Discworld titles had been published in the metric Demy 8vo format, but starting with Guards! Guards! (and to the annoyance of many collectors) the series was published in the larger metric Royal 8vo size. Received wisdom was that Demy 8vo sized books no longer became bestsellers. Then, starting in 1996, the so-called Collectors Edition increased the size of the early titles, and gave each a uniform cover style, based on that for Maskerade, the first title to use it.

10/09/2008