United Kingdom
The First Discworld Novels
(The Colour of Magic and
The Light
Fantastic)
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)

Colour of Magic
on the cover: Corgi, 03/08 (978-0-552-15727-8)
Published as a tie-in with the SkyOne/Mob production of the
mini-series,
with Sir David Jason (Rincewind) and Sean Astin (Twoflower) on the
cover.
‘now a major tv series’
first televised over Easter 2008.
Book club
BCA, 2005 (CN 136928)
Compact Edition
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic, Equal Rites and MORT)
Gollancz, 20,000 copies, 16/11/95 (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)
The first 3 Discworld volumes
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic and Equal Rites)
For Christmas 1989 Corgi issued the first 3 Discworld
volumes in a slip case (0-552-00774-9)
The next 3 Discworld volumes
(Mort, Sourcery and Wyrd Sisters)
For Christmas 1990 Corgi issued the next 3 Discworld volumes in a slip case
(0-552-00796-X)
Discworld Starter
Pack
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic and Equal Rites)
Corgi issued
for Ottakars a special signed, slip-cased copies of The Colour of Magic
together with a ‘Discworld Starter Pack’, a slipcase containing
paperbacks of the first three Discworld novels.
1/9/04 (0-552-76991-6)
The Witches Trilogy
(Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters and
Witches Abroad)
On 30/8/94 [or 27/9/94], Gollancz issued THE
WITCHES TRILOGY, A Discworld
Omnibus’
(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.
Death Trilogy
(Mort, Reaper Man and Soul
Music)
On 22/10/98 Gollancz published
DEATH TRILOGY, ‘A Discworld Omnibus’ (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.
City Watch Trilogy
(Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms and
Feet of Clay)
On
18/11//99 Gollancz published CITY WATCH TRILOGY, ‘A Discworld
Omnibus’ (0-575-06798-5)
with
a first printing of 29,800 copies.
The Gods
Trilogy
(Pyramids, Small Gods and Hogfather)
On 20/7/00 Gollancz published THE GODS TRILOGY, ‘A Discworld
Omnibus’
(0-575-07036-6)
with a first printing of 11,000 copies
Rincewind
Trilogy
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic, Sourcery and Faust Eric)
On 17/5/01 Gollancz published THE RINCEWIND TRILOGY, ‘A Discworld
Omnibus’
(0-575-07236-9)
with a first printing of 8,000 copies
USA
Rincewind the Wizard
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic, Sourcery and Faust Eric)
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)
Tales of Discworld
(Pyramids, Moving Pictures and
Small Gods)
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)
Dutch
Schijfwereldomnibus nr.1
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic and Equal Rites)
Het
Spectrum, 4,000 copies, 1998 (90-274-6338-7)
Schijfwereldomnibus nr.2
(Mort, Sourcery and Wyrd
Sisters)
Het Spectrum, 5,000 copies, 8/98 (90-274-6536-3)
Schijfwereldomnibus nr.3
(Pyramids, Guards! Guards! and Faust
Eric)
Het Spectrum, 5,000 copies, 8/1999 (90-274-6757-9)
Schijfwereldomnibus nr.4
(Moving Pictures, Reaper Man and Witches Abroad)
Het Spectrum, 5,000 copies, 8/2000 (90-274-6995-4)
Double Volume
(Equal Rites and Mort)
De Schijfwereld, 07/2005, (90-2254261-0)Double Volume
(Sourcery
and Wyrd
Sisters)
De Schijfwereld, M[De Boekerij], 11/2005 (90-225-4313-7,
NUR 334)
German
Die Farben der Magie. Der Zauberhut
(The Colour of Magic and 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)
Bookclub edition of above
Boulevard Taschenbuch, (Bertelsmann), 5/98 (00539
7)
(but with Kirbys illustration for the cover of
Sourcery)
Rincewind der Zauberer
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic, Sourcery, and Faust Eric)
An omnibus 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)
Republished by Piper
12/04 (3-492-28517-1); 1/05 (3-492-28500-7)
Republished
Piper, 2005 (3-492-28500-7)
Die Magie
der Scheibenwelt
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic and Sourcery)
Heyne, 12/02 (3-453-86367-4; 06/9300)
The first three Discworld novels in one volume, with a foreword by Neil
Gaiman
Die Magie
der Scheibenwelt
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic and Equal Rites)
Piper, 08/2006 (3-492-28519-8)
With a foreword by Neil Gaiman
Double volume
Das Licht der Phantasie, Das Erbe des Zauberers
(Equal Rites and The Light Fantastic)
Heyne, 1994 (3-453-07339-8)
(which
also used Kirby’s ‘Valentine’s Arch’ on the cover. The 1999 printing
finally changed the cover illustration
using Josh Kirby’s image for the first Discworld computer game)
Republished
Piper, 11/04 (3-492-28515-5)
Bookclub edition of above
Das Licht der Phantasie, Das Erbe des Zauberers
Boulevard Taschenbuch (Goldmann) 5/98 (ref. 00538
9)
(but using Kirbys illustration for The Light
Fantastic)
Double volume
(Pyramids and Wyrd Sisters)
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)
Double volume
(MORT and Guards!
Guards!)
Heyne, 10/2000 (3-453-16879-8) Tipp des Monats 23/165
Reissued
Piper, 7/07 (978-3-492-28625-1)
Double volume
(Moving Pictures and Reaper Man)
Voll im Bilde; Alles Sense!, Goldmann, 8/01 (3-442-45068-3)
Uses the first Kirby picture for Moving Pictures, not
previously used on a cover.
Double
volume
(Witches Abroad and Small Gods)
Total verhext. Einfach göttlich
Goldmann, 12/03 (3-442-13334-3)
Reissue
15,000 copies for special marketing campaign 7/04
(3-442-13411-0)
Reissue
6/08 (978-3-442-13434-2)
Greek
(The Colour of Magic and The Light
Fantastic)
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)
Italian
I colori della Magia
(The Colour of Magic, The Light
Fantastic and Equal Rites)
Mondadori 1991 (88-04-35085-7)
Il mondo del Disco: La Seconda Trilogia
(Mort, Sourcery and Wyrd
Sisters)
trs. Antonella Pieretti, Mondadori, 10/92 (88-04-36520-X)
Russian
Double volume
(The Colour of Magic
and The Light
Fantastic)
Eksmo, 5,000 copies, 14/5/03 (5-699-03074-3)
Double volume
(MORT
and Reaper Man)
Eksmo, 5,000 copies, 23/10/02 (5-699-0205-0)
Double volume
(Witches Abroad and
Lords and Ladies)
Eksmo, 15/4/03 (5-699-03624-5)
Double volume
(Small Gods
and Pyramids)
Eksmo, 15/1/03 (5-699-02733-5)
Double volume
(Men At Arms and
Guards! Guards!)
Eksmo, 5,000 copies, 14/4/03 (5-699-02859-5)
Spanish
Bookclub
(Sourcery and Wyrd Sisters)
Circulo de Lectores, cover illus. Xavier Martinez
2001 (84-226-8664-3; 38406 B)
29/02/2008