7a.5u The Discworld Companion ("updated" edition)
%A Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
%T The Discworld Companion
%I Vista (p/b)
%D 22/5/97 (in fact available by 17/5/97)
ISBN 0575-60030-6
this is a minimum of (approximately) 14% greater in content, than
the h/cvr (and b format p/b) first edition.
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7a.6 The Discworld Mapp
%A Stephen Briggs and Terry Pratchett
%T The Discworld Mapp
%I Corgi (folded map in card cover)
%D 1995
ISBN 0552-14324-3
Blurb:
They said it couldn't be done. Well, it has been done, proving them
wrong once again. After years of research, cunningly contrived in as
many minutes, the discworld has its map. It takes full account of the
historic and much documented expeditions of the Discworld's feted (or
at least fated) explorers: General Sir Roderick Purdeigh, Lars
Larsnephew, Llamedos Jones, Lady Alice Venturi, Ponce da Quirm and,
of course, Venter Borass.
Now travellers on this circular world can see it all: from Klatch
to the Ramtops, from Cori Celesti to the Circle Sea, from Genua to
Bhanbhanduc. The great cities of Hunghung, Pseudopolis, Al Khali
and, of course, Ankh-Morpork are place with loving care upon this
world which is carried through space by Great A'Tuin.
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7a.7 Terry Pratchett's Discworld - The Official Strategy Guide
%A Glen Edridge
%T Terry Pratchett's Discworld - The Official Strategy Guide
%I Prima (mid-format p/b) [7.4"/18.8cm wide by 9.2"/23.4cm tall]
%D 1995
ISBN 0-5521-4439-8(us)
ISBN 0-55214-439-8(uk)
Published in their "Secrets of the Games (T.M.)" series, this
is a 136-paged, *indexed* guide to the Psygnosis computer game,
"Terry Pratchett's Discworld", illustrated with b+w screenshots
and details of screenshots, and containing a detachable, full-
colour poster-map of Ankh-Morpork bound in. [The one edition is
distributed under either ISBN, as appropriate.]
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7a.7a Terry Pratchett's Discworld Quizbook
%A David Langford
%T Terry Pratchett's Discworld Quizbook
%I Vista (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby
%D 1996
ISBN 0575-60000-4
first edition (p/b) blurb:
THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE:
Trolls have smashed down the door, there's a banshee on the
roof, the river's caught fire, the librarian has turned into
some kind of ape, and _this is your starter for ten..._
Questions about figgins, DEATH, mind-destroying footnotes,
carnivorous Luggage with lots of little legs, quantum
butterflies, the magico-numerical significance of what
we must call _twice four_ or _seven plus one_, and even the
precise sex of the Great Turtle who supports Terry
Pratchett's phenomenal planet (via four elephant middlemen).
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7a.9 The Pratchett Portfolio
%A Terry Pratchett (text)
%A Paul Kidby (artist)
%T The Pratchett Portfolio
%I Victor Gollancz (middling large fmt p/b) [9"/23cm wide by 11.4"/29cm tall]
%D 9/96
ISBN 0-575-06348-3
"A compendium of characters from the discworld,
lavishly illustrated by Paul Kidby"
Seven colour, and many b+w illustrations of characters with
accompanying character sketches written by Terry.
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7a.10 Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!?
The Official Strategy Guide
%A Paul Kidd
%T Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!? The Official
Strategy Guide
%I Boxtree (mid-format p/b) [7.4"/18.8cm wide by 9.2"/23.4cm tall]
%D 1996
ISBN 0-7522-2204-X (uk)
A 144-paged (including titles, indica & final p. advert.),
*indexed* guide to the Perfect Entertainment computer game,
"Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!?",
illustrated with black, dark orangey-brown + white screenshots
and details of screenshots, and containing a detachable, full-
colour poster-map of The Discworld bound in (Stephen Player's
Mappe, see 7a.6; reproduced well, though on a smaller scale).
As Prophesised by Achmed the Mad!
'And lo, it came to pass, the denizens of Perfect Entertainment
did construct a game known to the world as Discworld II. For
forty days and forty nights did the heroes struggle with the
fiendish quests, until finally their occidental lobes were sore,
and they cried out to Jaala, goddess of lateral thinking, parallel
parking, pinball and miscellaneous entertainments, saying "How do
I get bees to sweat?" and "What do I do with the ironing board?"
And the spirit of Jaala moved through the world, and thus was the
Discworld II Strategy Guide created.'
_The Book of Kash (Prophet, 2nd Grade)._
Discworld is a planet rife with danger and magical mayhem and, when
Death disappears, a hero is desperately needed to bring him back.
Unfortunately for everyone Rincewind, the hapless magician, lands the
job ... and with a hero like that you need all the help you can get.
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7a.11 Discworld Unseen University Diary 1998
%A Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs illustrated by Paul Kidby
%T Discworld Unseen University Diary 1998
%I Gollancz
%D 27/10/97 (actually available by 17/10/97)
ISBN 0-575-06551-6
twenty pages of useful information to the uuu [u], b+w pencil-work
embellishments by paul kidby, a diary-style map of ankh-morpork's
most interesting features from viewpoint of the uuu, and a week-
to-a-double-page-spread diary for 1998 [including "octdays", which
are unnumbered in the run of each month, whose discworld and this-
world namess are given, as are public holidays. the endpapers are
year planners for 1998 and 1999.
[u] - undergraduate
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7a.12 A Tourist Guide to Lancre
%A Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby, Terry
%T A Tourist Guide to Lancre
%I Corgi (walker's guide to sights & sites plus folded "aerial view"
poster map with placenames overlaid, in "b-format" card covers)
%D 6/98 [delayed publication: first printing map key numbers & guide
do not agree [source: dave langford's fanzine, Ansible];
not distributed, save possibly during Terry's signing tour.]
ISBN 0-552-14608-0
Not only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also
an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's
more, er, picturesque kingdoms.
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there.
Lancre could hardly be somewhere ordinary, could it ?
Magic glues the Discworld together and a lot of it ends up in
Lancre, principal Kingdom of the Ramtop Mountains. Between
Uberwald and Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the
Widdershins Ocean lies the most exciting and dangerous terrain
in all Discworld. The Ramtops supply Discworld with most of its
witches and wizards. The leaves on the trees in the Ramtops move
even when there is no breeze. Rocks go for a stroll in the even-
ing. Even the land, at times, seems alive.
The mapp may only be two-dimensional, but watch it very carefully
and you might see it jostle about a bit.
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7a.13 Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Calendar
%A Josh Kirby (illustr.)
%T Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Calendar
%I Ink
%D 30/9/98 [on sale at i.m.t. in dwc2 from 18-21/9/98 (9/18-21/98 for merkins)]
ISBN 1-87627-489-1
reproductions of cover and other discworld art by josh kirby:
Mort, Eric, Wyrd Sisters, The Colour of Magic, Reaper Man,
Death in his Study [from Eric], Moving Pictures, Soul Music,
Guards! Guards!, The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic,
Maskerade.
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7a.14 Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1999
%A Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby (illustr.), Terry
%T Discworld's City Watch Diary 1999
%I Gollancz
%D 24/9/98 [on sale in large uk a/cs by 17/9/98 <*sulk*>]
ISBN 0-575-06660-1
twenty pages of useful information to the amcwb [b], b+w pencil-
work embellishments by paul kidby, and a week-to-a-double-page-
spread diary for 1999 [including "octdays", which are unnumbered
in the run of each month, whose discworld and this-world names
are given, as are public holidays. two pages of display adverts.
the endpapers are year planners for 1999 and Y2k - with 29/2/00
(2/29/00 for merkins).
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7a.15 Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Day-to-Day Calendar
%A Paul Kidby (illustr.), Stephen Briggs, Terry
%T Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Day-to-Day Calendar
%I Ink
%D 30/9/98 [scheduled; delayed 'til late 10/98]
ISBN 1-876327-243-3
blurb:
includes new, unpublished Paul Kidby illustrations!
365 invaluble facts for the discerning Discworld traveller
The unpredictable fantasy land of Discworld floats through
space on the back of four elephants standing on a turtle. In
this calendar, with text from _The Discworld Companion_ (pub-
lished in 1994/95), Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs provide
a wealth of detail to guide the adventurous, yet discerning,
Discworld traveller. With each page, a different aspect of Disc-
world is explored -- its geography, inhabitants, leading citiz-
ens, culture and history. In fact a whole calendar full of inval-
uable facts, from A to Z, that Discworld afficionados cannot
live without.
[n.b. the paul kidby illustrations are printed in feint, as is
suitable for overwriting - as befits a desk tear-off calendar.
- ppint.]
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7a.16 Death's Domain
%A Paul Kidby, Terry
%T Death's Domain
%I Corgi [map in card covers with 32pp booklet incl. titles, indica, key]
%D 29/4/99
ISBN 0-552-14672-2
blurb:
<"gothic" style font>
The house that Death built...and the garden too.
DEATH'S DOMAIN
It's no more than a breath away...
Everyone needs a place to relax after a long day, after all. So
here is the place where the Grim Reaper can kick back and take
the load off his scythe. Here's the golf course that's not so
much crazy as insane, and the useless maze, and the dark gardens
- all brought (incongruously) to life. And here, for the first
time ever, you will find out the reason why Death can't under-
stand rockeries, and what happens to garden gnomes.
As Death rides Binky into the sunset (of other people's lives),
you can at last see what he gets up to when he's not at work.
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7a.17 The Science of Discworld
%A Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen & Terry
%T The Science of Discworld
%I Ebury Press
%D 3/6/99 h/cvr [cover art by paul kidby]
ISBN 0-09-186515-8
[p/b guesstimates:
%I Vermillion
%D 3/6/00 p/b [same cvr art]
ISBN 0-09-......-.
but n.b. these are guesstimates]
this includes a new discworld story by terry, illustrative of
some of the main points made by ian stewart & jack cohen; the
individual chapters have titles, but none is given in the book
for the story as a whole. the story occupies approximately one
third of the book, its chapters alternating with those of the
exposition.
blurb:
In the fantasy universe of the phenomenally best-selling
Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense.
The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine
times out of ten. Our world seems different - it runs on
rules, often rather strange ones. Science is our way of
finding out what those rules are. The appeal of Discworld
is that it mostly makes sense, in a way that particle
physics doesn't.
_The Science of Discworld_ uses the magic of Discworld
to illuminate the scientific rules that govern _our_
world. When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wiz-
ards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket
universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic
nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic.
Roundworld is, of course, our own universe. With us in-
side it (eventually). Guided (if that's the word) by
the wizards, we follow the story from the primal sing-
ularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. We
discover how puny and insignificant lives are against a
cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradox-
ically, we see how the richness of a universe based on
rules has led to a complex world and at least one spec-
ies that tried to get a grip on what was going on...
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7a.18 Discworld Assassins' Guild Diary 2000
%A Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby (illustr.), Terry
%T Discworld Assassins' Guild Diary 2000
%I Gollancz [advised as orion, who now own them; but isbn is gollancz's]
%D 19/8/99 [scheduled] h/cvr
ISBN 0-575-06687-3
128pp, cvr & illustrations by paul kidby
[i'll try and have these for ccde '99; but cassell plc
(then owners of gollancz, now themselves owned by orion)
were less than helpful with stock of last year's diary
and there thus were none at the second discworld con-
vention, in the adelphi hotel, liverpool :-(. ppint.]
[though it's looking as though this description may not
apply to orion, the new owners :-)). ppint. (7/7/99)]
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7a.19 Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
%A Tina Hannan, Paul Kidby & Terry
%T Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
%I Doubleday
%D 11/99 [scheduled] h/cvr
ISBN 0-385-.....-.
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9. Notes
(on publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers), formats...
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9.1 Note on uk publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers)
The ten-digit International Standard Book Number is used to uniquely
identify an edition of a book (though not, in uk usage, each printing).
it consists of a first section, identifying the language ("0-" or "1-"
indicates english); a second section identifying the publisher, some-
times, now, the imprint - where one publisher has been taken over by
another). it is the last part of the isbn that is peculiar to the part-
icular edition of a book from the publisher identified by these prefixes
(the final tenth figure is a check digit, that allows transmission and
typing errors to be caught by computer systems - or, in theory, by hand).
UK publishers of Terry's books, and of anthologies containing his stories.
0-006-, 0-022- HarperCollins_Publishers_ (formerly William Collins & Sons,
before that truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, then xxxxian, added
them to his swagbag): included are the imprints HarperCollins, Voyager, etc;
Collins, whose p/b imprint was Fontana, had by then bought Granada Publish-
ing, who had themselves absorbed Mayflower, Rupert Hart-Davis, McGibbon &
Kee, Arco, Paladin, and others - not least, Panther, which house went back
to the fifties, when Panther Books was set up as an imprint of the publish-
ers, Hamilton & Co., Staffs... Pan Books (see 0-330-) was formerly associat-
ed with Collins by partial ownership of Pan, but was operationally separate;
0-09- indicates a book published by the Arrow division of Random House UK,
formerly part of Century-Hutchinson, formerly Arrow Books, the p/b imprint
of the long-established uk publishers, Hutchinson & Co., who were for a
decade or so owned by London Weekend Television. imprints included Legend
(now sold to Little, Brown [Warner UK], who own the Orbit imprint, and are
re-badging as Orbit books, as they reprint - and changing ISBNs accordingly
[see 1-85723-] - as of mid-1997), Ebury Press & Vermilion, and Red Fox,
whose p/bs and h/cvrs also use this prefix: Random House has recently
been bought by Bertelsmann, who also own Transworld Publishers [- see
0-385-, 0-552- below];
0-19- is the prefix identifying Oxford University Press;
0-285- indicates Souvenir Press;
0-330- identifies Pan Books, formerly owned by a consortium of William
Collins, Granada and Thomas Tilling/British Electric Traction; now an
imprint of Macmillan Publishers, who owned, but now are a sister company
of, the merkin publisher, St. Martins Press (the owners of Tor Books till
this reorganisation): all are now parts of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings;
0-7522- is the prefix Macmillan use on their Boxtree imprint;
0-385- and 0-552- are, respectively, the Doubleday (h/cvr) and Corgi (p/b)
imprints of Transworld Publishers, now owned by the Bertelsmann group of
Germany (as are the merkin publishers Bantam Doubleday Dell, who have the
rights to distribute these editions in Canada, where these rights are clear
to so do [and as also, now, are both Random House and Random House U.K.
into which latter Transworld Publishers have been incorporated];
0-416- and 0-7497- indicate Methuen Childrens Books imprints of the Reed
(a.k.a. Octopus Publishing) group, formerly imprints of A.B.P. Ltd. -
their adult consumer books imprints have recently (1997) been bought by
Random House U.K., who may vary isbns upon later reissue (isbn prefix
0-09-); whose adult sf & fantasy list has, in turn, since been sold on to
Little, Brown (Time-Warner uk); the destination of their children's
list(s) is not yet known to this ppint. for certain, but is believed by
this ppint. to be as part of Egmont Children's Books.
0-450- indicates N.E.L. (New English Library), owned by Times-Mirror, inc.,
of Los Angeles when they published paperback editions of two of Terry's
early novels, but now an imprint of Hodder Headline plc, having been bought
by Hodder & Stoughton, who in turn were taken over by Headline Publishers
and who have just been bought by W.H.Smith's;
0-55214- and 0-5521- both indicate Prima Publishing, a division of Prima
Communications, Inc. - the former, in the uk, and the latter, in merkia.
0-575- identifies the once-independent Victor Gollancz Ltd., and its VGSF
imprint: both these are now imprints of Cassell, which is in turn owned
by Orion (since late 1998), who are themselves owned by Hachette; and also
Vista, which Cassell launched as an imprint of Cassell using that same stem,
after they bought Gollancz from merkin publishers, Houghton Miflin (who were
the owners of Victor Gollancz Ltd. from their purchase of it upon the retire-
ment of Livia Gollancz); see also 0-75281- etc. (Orion); titles on the vista
list are being re-badged and -isbn-ed as orion millennium books as they are
reprinted.
0-7522- is the prefix Macmillan use on their Boxtree imprint (see 0-330-);
0-75281- and 0-75280- indicate Orion, whose Millennium imprint formerly
used 1-85798- as its prefix. 70% owned by Hachette, the french publishing
conglomerate since mid 1998. see also 0-575- (Gollancz, Vista) prefix.
0-7531-, 1-85089-, and 1-85695- identify Isis Publishing Ltd: some of
these are large print h/cvr editions, and some are unabridged audio/bs.
0-86140-, 0-900675- and 0-901072- all indicate Colin Smythe Ltd. Colin is
Terry's agent, and was the first to publish his books;
1-85028- indicates the Paper Tiger imprint, once of Dragon's World: both
are now imprints of Collins-Brown; while
1-85286- identifies Titan Books Ltd;
1-85487- is used by Robinson Publishing, on their Mammoth imprint (not to
be confused with the children's imprint of Methuen, as was], as well as
upon others, such as Raven, and even Robinson;
1-85723- indicates the Orbit imprint of Little, Brown & Co. Ltd, the uk
book-publishing arm of Time-Warner, inc; and
1-870824- identifies Beccon Publications.
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9.2 Note on merkin publishers & ISBNs.
Merkin publishers of Terry's books, and of anthologies containing his stories.
0-06- HarperCollins_Publishers_, inc. (formerly Harper & Row, before that
truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, added them to his swagbag): in-
cluded are the imprints HarperCollins, HarperPrism, etc;
0-312- and 0-812- identify St. Martins Press (h/cvr & tp/b) and Tor Books
(mmp/b) respectively, Tor was formerly an independent publisher, though
the former prefix is now used on Tor h/cvr editions; i don't recall what
the St. Martins' isbns of Terry's early novels were, but they did not pro-
duce their own editions, iirc; rather, they re-dust-jacketed, and St. Mar-
tins-stickered, (run-ons of) Colin Smythe's editions for merkin distribn.
they were owned by Macmillan uk [not associated with Collier-Macmillan]
until february '98; all are now parts of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings;
0-425- and 0-441- are both identifiers of the Berkley Publishing Group,
until recently owned by Matsushita of Japan, were then sold off to the
canadadadian drinks giant, Seagram, and are currently being absorbed by
the merkin wing of Penguin, which has been renamed Putnam-Penguin, iirc.
0-441- indicates use of the Ace imprint, once an independent publisher;
0-451- indicates merkin imprints of New American Library (- originally
set up as merkin Penguin by Ian Ballantine and others; at the time they
started to publish merkin editions of Terry's books, they were owned by
Times-Mirror group of Los Angeles, and were the mother, or a sister, com-
pany of the british publisher, New English Library), Signet & Roc. They
are now imprints of Penguin, inc., or Putnam-Penguin (or whatever the
Great Penguin in darkest Harmondsworth has decided to call its merkin
publishing wing this week - possibly, "Dutton-Penguin"...). has also been
used by Penguin for Signet imprint in the uk - where, rather confusingly,
the Roc imprint borrowed from merkia uses the isbn prefix 0-140-. happily,
for booksellers, bibliographers and librarians ("ooook !"), no Signet/Roc
uk book contains aught by Terry - leastways, not *yet*...
0-5521- and 0-55214- both indicate Prima Publishing, a division of Prima
Communications, Inc. - the former, in merkia, and the latter, in the uk;
0-7867- is the prefix for books published by Carroll and Graf;
0-894- identifies Workman Publishing, while
0-9630944- identifies Dreamhaven Books, and
1-55634- publications of Steve Jackson Games.
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9.3 Non-english language editions' ISBNs.
"2-" identifies a french-language edition isbn ("2-08-" for Flammarion,
"2-266-" Pocket, "2-290-" J'ai Lu, & "2-905158-" l'Atlante); "3-" german-
language editions isbn (prefixes "3-442-" indicating Goldmann, "3-453-"
Wilhelm Heyne, "3-8077-" 2001/Rogner & Bernhard). "83-" identifies the
polish language ("83-7120-" Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, "83-85661-" Proszynski
i S-ka); "88-" identifies italian ("88-04-" Mondadori, "88-7782-" Salani,
"88-200-" Sperling & Kupfer); "90-" dutch ("90-274-" Het Spectrum); and
"91-" swedish ("91-7898-" Target Games), language books' isbns.
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9.4 Notes on book formats.
audio/b "Audiobook" - a reading of the novel, or an abbreviation of it,
recorded on a number of compact cassettes. the Corgi audio/b range
is of abridgements narrated by Tony ("Baldrick") Robinson, filling
two cassettes per novel, running time circa three hours each; the
Isis audio/b range is of the complete novels narrated by either
Nigel ("Neil") Planer [or Celia Imries, on the first two witches
novels] and occupying variously six, or eight, cassettes; running
time varying widely between seven and a half, and eleven hours.
Neither publishers' audio/b cassettes are differentiated in a way
that blind or visually impaired (poorly-sighted) people can easily
distinguish; this is of less consequence with the corgi audio/bs,
as there are only two cassettes per novel to confuse; however, the
isis audio/b packaging does allow strict order to be followed - IF
the cassettes are ALWAYS returned to the appropriate position (and
preferably, the earlier, "odd" sides uppermost).
h/cvr "Hardcover" - the printed pages are published bound between boards
(generally cloth-covered: hence h/cvr editions also referred to as
"cloth"). the pages are properly sewn into signatures, and collec-
ted by being sewn to cloth tapes, and sewn and glued onto a backing
cloth, which is then glued to the inside edges of the cloth-covered
boards. the endpapers are then glued in to cover the insides of the
cloth-covered boards, and to the spine edges of the fly pages.
n.b. the gollancz/cassell plc editions of The Witches Trilogy and
The Death Trilogy are not so bound, being in effect p/bs which
happen to have board covers...
n.b. the gollancz/cassell miniature h/cvrs are not so bound, in that
the cloth elements of a proper binding are completely omitted.
[this note will need rewriting, should editions of Terry's books be
published in quarter, half, three-quarter or full leather bindings.]
mmp/b "Mass Market Paperback" - this term is descriptive of the distribut-
ion system used to make these merkin p/bs available to the retailer;
essentially, mmp/bs are treated as monthly magazines, their covers
being stripped and returned for credit, if unsold on the arrival of
the following month's titles. in _size_, the mmp/b is approximately
the same as the uk "a format p/b"; but virtually all uk p/bs are in
fact tp/bs. (cf. "p/b", "tp/b", "yp/b")
p/b "Paperback" - the signatures are blocked together and then trimmed,
with the resultant individual pages then being glued to the inside
spine of a card cover (also known as "perfect" binding). although
p/bs have been produced with their pages sewn in signatures, these
in turn being glued either to the inside spine of the card cover (or
first into paper or cloth tape) and this to the card cover, no such
editions exist of Terry's books. [but see the feetnotes to "h/cvr".]
the uk "a format p/b" is roughly the same size as the merkin mmp/b;
the "b format p/b" is approximately an inch and a quarter taller and
wider that the a format p/b. (see also "mmp/b", "tp/b" and "yp/b")
n.b. p/bs listed above are a format p/b, unless otherwise indicated.
tp/b "Trade Paperback" - this term is descriptive of the distribution
system used to make these (nowadays mostly merkin, for fiction)
p/bs available to the retailer; tp/bs are not sold via the news
wholesalers, nor the retail outlets they supply (news-stand, chain-
store and/ mom+pop store racks, etc.), but via the book trade.
they are not "strippable for credit". the tp/b may be a p/b of any
size, and so is not strictly of any particular format. (cf. "mmp/b",
"p/b" & "yp/b")
yp/b "Yuppieback" - this term is descriptive of the uk p/bs manufactured
from trimmed signatures of the h/cvr printing: it is a recent uk
innovation, normally published at the same time as, or three or six
months after, the h/cvr. the term was derived from the somewhat res-
tricted perceived custom for this edition: "those who can afford it
(the space as well as the cost) buy the hardcover, and normal people
like you and me buy the paperback: that only leaves yuppies, to buy
the yuppiebacks." the yp/b is necessarily of the dimensions of the
trimmed h/cvr edition signatures. (cf. "mmp/b", "p/b" and "tp/b")
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7/7/99 (7/7/99 for merkins) update and revision
copyright (c) by p.pinto ppint@lspace.org
further information, explanation and detail welcome...
love, ppint. (ppint@lspace.org)
[follow-up set to "poster"; please remove "y" from reply-to line]
[0] - "the perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum"
- finagle's third law
--
"the life of a vegetable is of absolutely no interest whatsoever -
including to the vegetable in question. i speak from experience."
- ppint. at interstellar master traders
lancaster's sf, fantasy & horror role-playing game and book shop
%A Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
%T The Discworld Companion
%I Vista (p/b)
%D 22/5/97 (in fact available by 17/5/97)
ISBN 0575-60030-6
this is a minimum of (approximately) 14% greater in content, than
the h/cvr (and b format p/b) first edition.
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7a.6 The Discworld Mapp
%A Stephen Briggs and Terry Pratchett
%T The Discworld Mapp
%I Corgi (folded map in card cover)
%D 1995
ISBN 0552-14324-3
Blurb:
They said it couldn't be done. Well, it has been done, proving them
wrong once again. After years of research, cunningly contrived in as
many minutes, the discworld has its map. It takes full account of the
historic and much documented expeditions of the Discworld's feted (or
at least fated) explorers: General Sir Roderick Purdeigh, Lars
Larsnephew, Llamedos Jones, Lady Alice Venturi, Ponce da Quirm and,
of course, Venter Borass.
Now travellers on this circular world can see it all: from Klatch
to the Ramtops, from Cori Celesti to the Circle Sea, from Genua to
Bhanbhanduc. The great cities of Hunghung, Pseudopolis, Al Khali
and, of course, Ankh-Morpork are place with loving care upon this
world which is carried through space by Great A'Tuin.
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7a.7 Terry Pratchett's Discworld - The Official Strategy Guide
%A Glen Edridge
%T Terry Pratchett's Discworld - The Official Strategy Guide
%I Prima (mid-format p/b) [7.4"/18.8cm wide by 9.2"/23.4cm tall]
%D 1995
ISBN 0-5521-4439-8(us)
ISBN 0-55214-439-8(uk)
Published in their "Secrets of the Games (T.M.)" series, this
is a 136-paged, *indexed* guide to the Psygnosis computer game,
"Terry Pratchett's Discworld", illustrated with b+w screenshots
and details of screenshots, and containing a detachable, full-
colour poster-map of Ankh-Morpork bound in. [The one edition is
distributed under either ISBN, as appropriate.]
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7a.7a Terry Pratchett's Discworld Quizbook
%A David Langford
%T Terry Pratchett's Discworld Quizbook
%I Vista (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby
%D 1996
ISBN 0575-60000-4
first edition (p/b) blurb:
THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE:
Trolls have smashed down the door, there's a banshee on the
roof, the river's caught fire, the librarian has turned into
some kind of ape, and _this is your starter for ten..._
Questions about figgins, DEATH, mind-destroying footnotes,
carnivorous Luggage with lots of little legs, quantum
butterflies, the magico-numerical significance of what
we must call _twice four_ or _seven plus one_, and even the
precise sex of the Great Turtle who supports Terry
Pratchett's phenomenal planet (via four elephant middlemen).
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7a.9 The Pratchett Portfolio
%A Terry Pratchett (text)
%A Paul Kidby (artist)
%T The Pratchett Portfolio
%I Victor Gollancz (middling large fmt p/b) [9"/23cm wide by 11.4"/29cm tall]
%D 9/96
ISBN 0-575-06348-3
"A compendium of characters from the discworld,
lavishly illustrated by Paul Kidby"
Seven colour, and many b+w illustrations of characters with
accompanying character sketches written by Terry.
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7a.10 Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!?
The Official Strategy Guide
%A Paul Kidd
%T Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!? The Official
Strategy Guide
%I Boxtree (mid-format p/b) [7.4"/18.8cm wide by 9.2"/23.4cm tall]
%D 1996
ISBN 0-7522-2204-X (uk)
A 144-paged (including titles, indica & final p. advert.),
*indexed* guide to the Perfect Entertainment computer game,
"Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!?",
illustrated with black, dark orangey-brown + white screenshots
and details of screenshots, and containing a detachable, full-
colour poster-map of The Discworld bound in (Stephen Player's
Mappe, see 7a.6; reproduced well, though on a smaller scale).
As Prophesised by Achmed the Mad!
'And lo, it came to pass, the denizens of Perfect Entertainment
did construct a game known to the world as Discworld II. For
forty days and forty nights did the heroes struggle with the
fiendish quests, until finally their occidental lobes were sore,
and they cried out to Jaala, goddess of lateral thinking, parallel
parking, pinball and miscellaneous entertainments, saying "How do
I get bees to sweat?" and "What do I do with the ironing board?"
And the spirit of Jaala moved through the world, and thus was the
Discworld II Strategy Guide created.'
_The Book of Kash (Prophet, 2nd Grade)._
Discworld is a planet rife with danger and magical mayhem and, when
Death disappears, a hero is desperately needed to bring him back.
Unfortunately for everyone Rincewind, the hapless magician, lands the
job ... and with a hero like that you need all the help you can get.
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7a.11 Discworld Unseen University Diary 1998
%A Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs illustrated by Paul Kidby
%T Discworld Unseen University Diary 1998
%I Gollancz
%D 27/10/97 (actually available by 17/10/97)
ISBN 0-575-06551-6
twenty pages of useful information to the uuu [u], b+w pencil-work
embellishments by paul kidby, a diary-style map of ankh-morpork's
most interesting features from viewpoint of the uuu, and a week-
to-a-double-page-spread diary for 1998 [including "octdays", which
are unnumbered in the run of each month, whose discworld and this-
world namess are given, as are public holidays. the endpapers are
year planners for 1998 and 1999.
[u] - undergraduate
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7a.12 A Tourist Guide to Lancre
%A Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby, Terry
%T A Tourist Guide to Lancre
%I Corgi (walker's guide to sights & sites plus folded "aerial view"
poster map with placenames overlaid, in "b-format" card covers)
%D 6/98 [delayed publication: first printing map key numbers & guide
do not agree [source: dave langford's fanzine, Ansible];
not distributed, save possibly during Terry's signing tour.]
ISBN 0-552-14608-0
Not only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also
an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's
more, er, picturesque kingdoms.
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there.
Lancre could hardly be somewhere ordinary, could it ?
Magic glues the Discworld together and a lot of it ends up in
Lancre, principal Kingdom of the Ramtop Mountains. Between
Uberwald and Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the
Widdershins Ocean lies the most exciting and dangerous terrain
in all Discworld. The Ramtops supply Discworld with most of its
witches and wizards. The leaves on the trees in the Ramtops move
even when there is no breeze. Rocks go for a stroll in the even-
ing. Even the land, at times, seems alive.
The mapp may only be two-dimensional, but watch it very carefully
and you might see it jostle about a bit.
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7a.13 Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Calendar
%A Josh Kirby (illustr.)
%T Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Calendar
%I Ink
%D 30/9/98 [on sale at i.m.t. in dwc2 from 18-21/9/98 (9/18-21/98 for merkins)]
ISBN 1-87627-489-1
reproductions of cover and other discworld art by josh kirby:
Mort, Eric, Wyrd Sisters, The Colour of Magic, Reaper Man,
Death in his Study [from Eric], Moving Pictures, Soul Music,
Guards! Guards!, The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic,
Maskerade.
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7a.14 Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1999
%A Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby (illustr.), Terry
%T Discworld's City Watch Diary 1999
%I Gollancz
%D 24/9/98 [on sale in large uk a/cs by 17/9/98 <*sulk*>]
ISBN 0-575-06660-1
twenty pages of useful information to the amcwb [b], b+w pencil-
work embellishments by paul kidby, and a week-to-a-double-page-
spread diary for 1999 [including "octdays", which are unnumbered
in the run of each month, whose discworld and this-world names
are given, as are public holidays. two pages of display adverts.
the endpapers are year planners for 1999 and Y2k - with 29/2/00
(2/29/00 for merkins).
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7a.15 Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Day-to-Day Calendar
%A Paul Kidby (illustr.), Stephen Briggs, Terry
%T Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Day-to-Day Calendar
%I Ink
%D 30/9/98 [scheduled; delayed 'til late 10/98]
ISBN 1-876327-243-3
blurb:
includes new, unpublished Paul Kidby illustrations!
365 invaluble facts for the discerning Discworld traveller
The unpredictable fantasy land of Discworld floats through
space on the back of four elephants standing on a turtle. In
this calendar, with text from _The Discworld Companion_ (pub-
lished in 1994/95), Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs provide
a wealth of detail to guide the adventurous, yet discerning,
Discworld traveller. With each page, a different aspect of Disc-
world is explored -- its geography, inhabitants, leading citiz-
ens, culture and history. In fact a whole calendar full of inval-
uable facts, from A to Z, that Discworld afficionados cannot
live without.
[n.b. the paul kidby illustrations are printed in feint, as is
suitable for overwriting - as befits a desk tear-off calendar.
- ppint.]
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7a.16 Death's Domain
%A Paul Kidby, Terry
%T Death's Domain
%I Corgi [map in card covers with 32pp booklet incl. titles, indica, key]
%D 29/4/99
ISBN 0-552-14672-2
blurb:
<"gothic" style font>
The house that Death built...and the garden too.
DEATH'S DOMAIN
It's no more than a breath away...
Everyone needs a place to relax after a long day, after all. So
here is the place where the Grim Reaper can kick back and take
the load off his scythe. Here's the golf course that's not so
much crazy as insane, and the useless maze, and the dark gardens
- all brought (incongruously) to life. And here, for the first
time ever, you will find out the reason why Death can't under-
stand rockeries, and what happens to garden gnomes.
As Death rides Binky into the sunset (of other people's lives),
you can at last see what he gets up to when he's not at work.
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7a.17 The Science of Discworld
%A Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen & Terry
%T The Science of Discworld
%I Ebury Press
%D 3/6/99 h/cvr [cover art by paul kidby]
ISBN 0-09-186515-8
[p/b guesstimates:
%I Vermillion
%D 3/6/00 p/b [same cvr art]
ISBN 0-09-......-.
but n.b. these are guesstimates]
this includes a new discworld story by terry, illustrative of
some of the main points made by ian stewart & jack cohen; the
individual chapters have titles, but none is given in the book
for the story as a whole. the story occupies approximately one
third of the book, its chapters alternating with those of the
exposition.
blurb:
In the fantasy universe of the phenomenally best-selling
Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense.
The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine
times out of ten. Our world seems different - it runs on
rules, often rather strange ones. Science is our way of
finding out what those rules are. The appeal of Discworld
is that it mostly makes sense, in a way that particle
physics doesn't.
_The Science of Discworld_ uses the magic of Discworld
to illuminate the scientific rules that govern _our_
world. When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wiz-
ards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket
universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic
nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic.
Roundworld is, of course, our own universe. With us in-
side it (eventually). Guided (if that's the word) by
the wizards, we follow the story from the primal sing-
ularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. We
discover how puny and insignificant lives are against a
cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradox-
ically, we see how the richness of a universe based on
rules has led to a complex world and at least one spec-
ies that tried to get a grip on what was going on...
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7a.18 Discworld Assassins' Guild Diary 2000
%A Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby (illustr.), Terry
%T Discworld Assassins' Guild Diary 2000
%I Gollancz [advised as orion, who now own them; but isbn is gollancz's]
%D 19/8/99 [scheduled] h/cvr
ISBN 0-575-06687-3
128pp, cvr & illustrations by paul kidby
[i'll try and have these for ccde '99; but cassell plc
(then owners of gollancz, now themselves owned by orion)
were less than helpful with stock of last year's diary
and there thus were none at the second discworld con-
vention, in the adelphi hotel, liverpool :-(. ppint.]
[though it's looking as though this description may not
apply to orion, the new owners :-)). ppint. (7/7/99)]
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7a.19 Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
%A Tina Hannan, Paul Kidby & Terry
%T Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
%I Doubleday
%D 11/99 [scheduled] h/cvr
ISBN 0-385-.....-.
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9. Notes
(on publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers), formats...
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9.1 Note on uk publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers)
The ten-digit International Standard Book Number is used to uniquely
identify an edition of a book (though not, in uk usage, each printing).
it consists of a first section, identifying the language ("0-" or "1-"
indicates english); a second section identifying the publisher, some-
times, now, the imprint - where one publisher has been taken over by
another). it is the last part of the isbn that is peculiar to the part-
icular edition of a book from the publisher identified by these prefixes
(the final tenth figure is a check digit, that allows transmission and
typing errors to be caught by computer systems - or, in theory, by hand).
UK publishers of Terry's books, and of anthologies containing his stories.
0-006-, 0-022- HarperCollins_Publishers_ (formerly William Collins & Sons,
before that truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, then xxxxian, added
them to his swagbag): included are the imprints HarperCollins, Voyager, etc;
Collins, whose p/b imprint was Fontana, had by then bought Granada Publish-
ing, who had themselves absorbed Mayflower, Rupert Hart-Davis, McGibbon &
Kee, Arco, Paladin, and others - not least, Panther, which house went back
to the fifties, when Panther Books was set up as an imprint of the publish-
ers, Hamilton & Co., Staffs... Pan Books (see 0-330-) was formerly associat-
ed with Collins by partial ownership of Pan, but was operationally separate;
0-09- indicates a book published by the Arrow division of Random House UK,
formerly part of Century-Hutchinson, formerly Arrow Books, the p/b imprint
of the long-established uk publishers, Hutchinson & Co., who were for a
decade or so owned by London Weekend Television. imprints included Legend
(now sold to Little, Brown [Warner UK], who own the Orbit imprint, and are
re-badging as Orbit books, as they reprint - and changing ISBNs accordingly
[see 1-85723-] - as of mid-1997), Ebury Press & Vermilion, and Red Fox,
whose p/bs and h/cvrs also use this prefix: Random House has recently
been bought by Bertelsmann, who also own Transworld Publishers [- see
0-385-, 0-552- below];
0-19- is the prefix identifying Oxford University Press;
0-285- indicates Souvenir Press;
0-330- identifies Pan Books, formerly owned by a consortium of William
Collins, Granada and Thomas Tilling/British Electric Traction; now an
imprint of Macmillan Publishers, who owned, but now are a sister company
of, the merkin publisher, St. Martins Press (the owners of Tor Books till
this reorganisation): all are now parts of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings;
0-7522- is the prefix Macmillan use on their Boxtree imprint;
0-385- and 0-552- are, respectively, the Doubleday (h/cvr) and Corgi (p/b)
imprints of Transworld Publishers, now owned by the Bertelsmann group of
Germany (as are the merkin publishers Bantam Doubleday Dell, who have the
rights to distribute these editions in Canada, where these rights are clear
to so do [and as also, now, are both Random House and Random House U.K.
into which latter Transworld Publishers have been incorporated];
0-416- and 0-7497- indicate Methuen Childrens Books imprints of the Reed
(a.k.a. Octopus Publishing) group, formerly imprints of A.B.P. Ltd. -
their adult consumer books imprints have recently (1997) been bought by
Random House U.K., who may vary isbns upon later reissue (isbn prefix
0-09-); whose adult sf & fantasy list has, in turn, since been sold on to
Little, Brown (Time-Warner uk); the destination of their children's
list(s) is not yet known to this ppint. for certain, but is believed by
this ppint. to be as part of Egmont Children's Books.
0-450- indicates N.E.L. (New English Library), owned by Times-Mirror, inc.,
of Los Angeles when they published paperback editions of two of Terry's
early novels, but now an imprint of Hodder Headline plc, having been bought
by Hodder & Stoughton, who in turn were taken over by Headline Publishers
and who have just been bought by W.H.Smith's;
0-55214- and 0-5521- both indicate Prima Publishing, a division of Prima
Communications, Inc. - the former, in the uk, and the latter, in merkia.
0-575- identifies the once-independent Victor Gollancz Ltd., and its VGSF
imprint: both these are now imprints of Cassell, which is in turn owned
by Orion (since late 1998), who are themselves owned by Hachette; and also
Vista, which Cassell launched as an imprint of Cassell using that same stem,
after they bought Gollancz from merkin publishers, Houghton Miflin (who were
the owners of Victor Gollancz Ltd. from their purchase of it upon the retire-
ment of Livia Gollancz); see also 0-75281- etc. (Orion); titles on the vista
list are being re-badged and -isbn-ed as orion millennium books as they are
reprinted.
0-7522- is the prefix Macmillan use on their Boxtree imprint (see 0-330-);
0-75281- and 0-75280- indicate Orion, whose Millennium imprint formerly
used 1-85798- as its prefix. 70% owned by Hachette, the french publishing
conglomerate since mid 1998. see also 0-575- (Gollancz, Vista) prefix.
0-7531-, 1-85089-, and 1-85695- identify Isis Publishing Ltd: some of
these are large print h/cvr editions, and some are unabridged audio/bs.
0-86140-, 0-900675- and 0-901072- all indicate Colin Smythe Ltd. Colin is
Terry's agent, and was the first to publish his books;
1-85028- indicates the Paper Tiger imprint, once of Dragon's World: both
are now imprints of Collins-Brown; while
1-85286- identifies Titan Books Ltd;
1-85487- is used by Robinson Publishing, on their Mammoth imprint (not to
be confused with the children's imprint of Methuen, as was], as well as
upon others, such as Raven, and even Robinson;
1-85723- indicates the Orbit imprint of Little, Brown & Co. Ltd, the uk
book-publishing arm of Time-Warner, inc; and
1-870824- identifies Beccon Publications.
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9.2 Note on merkin publishers & ISBNs.
Merkin publishers of Terry's books, and of anthologies containing his stories.
0-06- HarperCollins_Publishers_, inc. (formerly Harper & Row, before that
truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, added them to his swagbag): in-
cluded are the imprints HarperCollins, HarperPrism, etc;
0-312- and 0-812- identify St. Martins Press (h/cvr & tp/b) and Tor Books
(mmp/b) respectively, Tor was formerly an independent publisher, though
the former prefix is now used on Tor h/cvr editions; i don't recall what
the St. Martins' isbns of Terry's early novels were, but they did not pro-
duce their own editions, iirc; rather, they re-dust-jacketed, and St. Mar-
tins-stickered, (run-ons of) Colin Smythe's editions for merkin distribn.
they were owned by Macmillan uk [not associated with Collier-Macmillan]
until february '98; all are now parts of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings;
0-425- and 0-441- are both identifiers of the Berkley Publishing Group,
until recently owned by Matsushita of Japan, were then sold off to the
canadadadian drinks giant, Seagram, and are currently being absorbed by
the merkin wing of Penguin, which has been renamed Putnam-Penguin, iirc.
0-441- indicates use of the Ace imprint, once an independent publisher;
0-451- indicates merkin imprints of New American Library (- originally
set up as merkin Penguin by Ian Ballantine and others; at the time they
started to publish merkin editions of Terry's books, they were owned by
Times-Mirror group of Los Angeles, and were the mother, or a sister, com-
pany of the british publisher, New English Library), Signet & Roc. They
are now imprints of Penguin, inc., or Putnam-Penguin (or whatever the
Great Penguin in darkest Harmondsworth has decided to call its merkin
publishing wing this week - possibly, "Dutton-Penguin"...). has also been
used by Penguin for Signet imprint in the uk - where, rather confusingly,
the Roc imprint borrowed from merkia uses the isbn prefix 0-140-. happily,
for booksellers, bibliographers and librarians ("ooook !"), no Signet/Roc
uk book contains aught by Terry - leastways, not *yet*...
0-5521- and 0-55214- both indicate Prima Publishing, a division of Prima
Communications, Inc. - the former, in merkia, and the latter, in the uk;
0-7867- is the prefix for books published by Carroll and Graf;
0-894- identifies Workman Publishing, while
0-9630944- identifies Dreamhaven Books, and
1-55634- publications of Steve Jackson Games.
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9.3 Non-english language editions' ISBNs.
"2-" identifies a french-language edition isbn ("2-08-" for Flammarion,
"2-266-" Pocket, "2-290-" J'ai Lu, & "2-905158-" l'Atlante); "3-" german-
language editions isbn (prefixes "3-442-" indicating Goldmann, "3-453-"
Wilhelm Heyne, "3-8077-" 2001/Rogner & Bernhard). "83-" identifies the
polish language ("83-7120-" Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, "83-85661-" Proszynski
i S-ka); "88-" identifies italian ("88-04-" Mondadori, "88-7782-" Salani,
"88-200-" Sperling & Kupfer); "90-" dutch ("90-274-" Het Spectrum); and
"91-" swedish ("91-7898-" Target Games), language books' isbns.
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9.4 Notes on book formats.
audio/b "Audiobook" - a reading of the novel, or an abbreviation of it,
recorded on a number of compact cassettes. the Corgi audio/b range
is of abridgements narrated by Tony ("Baldrick") Robinson, filling
two cassettes per novel, running time circa three hours each; the
Isis audio/b range is of the complete novels narrated by either
Nigel ("Neil") Planer [or Celia Imries, on the first two witches
novels] and occupying variously six, or eight, cassettes; running
time varying widely between seven and a half, and eleven hours.
Neither publishers' audio/b cassettes are differentiated in a way
that blind or visually impaired (poorly-sighted) people can easily
distinguish; this is of less consequence with the corgi audio/bs,
as there are only two cassettes per novel to confuse; however, the
isis audio/b packaging does allow strict order to be followed - IF
the cassettes are ALWAYS returned to the appropriate position (and
preferably, the earlier, "odd" sides uppermost).
h/cvr "Hardcover" - the printed pages are published bound between boards
(generally cloth-covered: hence h/cvr editions also referred to as
"cloth"). the pages are properly sewn into signatures, and collec-
ted by being sewn to cloth tapes, and sewn and glued onto a backing
cloth, which is then glued to the inside edges of the cloth-covered
boards. the endpapers are then glued in to cover the insides of the
cloth-covered boards, and to the spine edges of the fly pages.
n.b. the gollancz/cassell plc editions of The Witches Trilogy and
The Death Trilogy are not so bound, being in effect p/bs which
happen to have board covers...
n.b. the gollancz/cassell miniature h/cvrs are not so bound, in that
the cloth elements of a proper binding are completely omitted.
[this note will need rewriting, should editions of Terry's books be
published in quarter, half, three-quarter or full leather bindings.]
mmp/b "Mass Market Paperback" - this term is descriptive of the distribut-
ion system used to make these merkin p/bs available to the retailer;
essentially, mmp/bs are treated as monthly magazines, their covers
being stripped and returned for credit, if unsold on the arrival of
the following month's titles. in _size_, the mmp/b is approximately
the same as the uk "a format p/b"; but virtually all uk p/bs are in
fact tp/bs. (cf. "p/b", "tp/b", "yp/b")
p/b "Paperback" - the signatures are blocked together and then trimmed,
with the resultant individual pages then being glued to the inside
spine of a card cover (also known as "perfect" binding). although
p/bs have been produced with their pages sewn in signatures, these
in turn being glued either to the inside spine of the card cover (or
first into paper or cloth tape) and this to the card cover, no such
editions exist of Terry's books. [but see the feetnotes to "h/cvr".]
the uk "a format p/b" is roughly the same size as the merkin mmp/b;
the "b format p/b" is approximately an inch and a quarter taller and
wider that the a format p/b. (see also "mmp/b", "tp/b" and "yp/b")
n.b. p/bs listed above are a format p/b, unless otherwise indicated.
tp/b "Trade Paperback" - this term is descriptive of the distribution
system used to make these (nowadays mostly merkin, for fiction)
p/bs available to the retailer; tp/bs are not sold via the news
wholesalers, nor the retail outlets they supply (news-stand, chain-
store and/ mom+pop store racks, etc.), but via the book trade.
they are not "strippable for credit". the tp/b may be a p/b of any
size, and so is not strictly of any particular format. (cf. "mmp/b",
"p/b" & "yp/b")
yp/b "Yuppieback" - this term is descriptive of the uk p/bs manufactured
from trimmed signatures of the h/cvr printing: it is a recent uk
innovation, normally published at the same time as, or three or six
months after, the h/cvr. the term was derived from the somewhat res-
tricted perceived custom for this edition: "those who can afford it
(the space as well as the cost) buy the hardcover, and normal people
like you and me buy the paperback: that only leaves yuppies, to buy
the yuppiebacks." the yp/b is necessarily of the dimensions of the
trimmed h/cvr edition signatures. (cf. "mmp/b", "p/b" and "tp/b")
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