The Carpet People

The first version

Hbk, illustrated by the author: Colin Smythe, c.3000 copies, 16 November 1971 (0-900675-49-7)
The jackets were not laminated but had a Duraseal protective cover.
The illustrations in a very few copies – certainly less than ten – were hand-coloured by the author. As far as I know, only two had all the illustrations coloured and extra pen and ink drawings added to some pages; others only had the full page illustrations coloured. Terry may have coloured all the illustrations in copies for friends, but I have not heard of any.
A facsimile reprint of this first edition, specially bound in carpet, was presented in a special case to the author by Transworld Publishers at his fiftieth birthday party. A copy in a trade cloth, but without any spine blocking is in the possession of the original publisher. There are no other copies of this printing. (News of this special printing had been printed and circulated prematurely in a fan newsletter prior to Terry’s birthday and his copy of the newsletter was waylaid and only given him after his birthday party.)

German: Alarm im Teppichreich, trs. Käthe Recheis, Sauerländer (cover & illus. Jörg Müller),  1972 (3-7941-0142-1)

 

The second version

Hbk: Doubleday, 18,100 copies on 30 June 1992 (0-385-40304-6)
Hbk, 1,000 Signed & Numbered Collector’s Edition, in slipcase: Doubleday, October 2005, (0-385-61026-2), specially prepared for Waterstones.
Illustrated hbk: 1 October 2009 (978-0-385-61572-3). Contains a 16 page full colour section with all those illustrations relevant to the second version, together with some of the extra illustrations he drew in some of the hand-coloured copies.
Pbk: Corgi, 111,500 copies on 22 April 1993 (0-552-52752-1)
The 8th printing (October 1999) had a modified cover design
Reissued in two formats, with new cover illustration by David Wyatt, Corgi, May 2004 (B-format: 0-552-55105-8; mass-market: 0-552-55107-4)
B-format reissued with modified cover design on 7 June 2012 (ISBN 978-0-552-55105-2)

Double volume pack with Wings, ‘Only available at Tesco’, August 2012 (978-1-409-60749-6)

Large print: Spectrum [Thorpe/Ulverscroft], 1 October 2000 (0-7089-9527-6)

USA (with additional material not in UK 2009 edition): Clarion 5 November 2013 (978-0-544-21247-3)
Advance reading copies: 500 with white background to front cover (error), 3,500 with cream background (correct), neither with colour illustrations. Apart from additional illustrations in colour and monchrome, this edition also contains TP’s first Carpet People story from The Bucks Free Press of 1965.

Bulgarian: Кидимените Хора, trs. Svetlana Komogorova, Prozoretz, 4,100 copies on 17 September 1996 (954-8079-40-1)

Czech: Kobercové, trs. Jan Kantörek, Talpress, June 2001 (80-7197-156-1)
With TP’s monochrome illustrations in the text and a colour section, and addendum (story published in the Bucks Free Press, 8 October-23 December 1965): Talpress, 2015 (978-80-7197-551-9)

Danish: Tæppefolket, trs. Torben Nilsson, Borgens, 1,500 copies on 4 February 1993 (87-418-6633-9)

Estonian: Vaibarahvas, trs.Eva Laur, Tiritamm, 1500 copies in May 1999 (9985-55-073-0) Used illustrations by Hieronymus Bosche on cover

French: Le Peuple du Tapis, trs. Patrick Marcel, J’ai Lu, December 1997 (2-290-04669-8)
New cover: 1999 (978-2-277-30268-1)
New cover: illus Frédéric Sorrentino, J’ai lu, 9 April 2009 (978-2-290-01761-6)

German: Die Teppichvölker, trs. Andreas Brandhorst, Heyne, c.8,071 copies in January 1994 (3-453-07369-X)
Heyne, with their – at that time – usual disregard for using appropriate cover designs,  used Kirby’s cover illustration for a book called Benedict’s Planet.
Reissue: Piper, July 2004 (978-3-492-28516-2)
Issued as an ebook 14 May 2012
Issued as a double volume, with Strata, Piper, October 2012 (978-3-492-26878-3)

Greek: Οι Χαλιμαντζαροι, trs. Ms. Anna Papastavrou, Patakis, 3,000 copies on 5 December 1996 (960-360-753-3)

 Hebrew: אנשי השטיח, Opus Press, 1994 (348-260, and Doubleday ISBN)

 Italian pbk: Il Popolo del Tappeto, trs. Angela Ragusa, Superjunior/Mondadori, March 1995 (88-04-39627-X)
Smaller pbk: I Miti Junior [Junior Myths]/Mondadori, May 1996 (88-04-41617-3)

Polish: Dywan, trs. Jarosław Kotarski, Rebis, 4,850 copies on 13 May 1997, 150 proofs (83-7120-489-2), reprinted 2002, 2006, 2011 (978-83-7510-607-7)

Russian: Vladimir Sekatchev [partner of Eksmo] c.2,000 copies

Slovak: Koberčania, trs. Vladislav Gális, Columbus, 2003 (90-7136-085-6)

 

The Dark Side of the Sun

UK hbk: Colin Smythe (jacket illus. the author), 921 copies on 10 May 1976. (0-901072-20-6)
Total printrun of the UK and US editions combined was 2,421 copies.

1st UK pbk: New English Library (cover illus. Tim White), ?12,500-15,000 copies on 2 March 1978 (0-450-03298-1)

2nd UK pbk: Corgi, 39,600 copies on 22 April 1988 (0-552-13326-4)
With the second 1993 printing the original Josh Kirby cover illustration was replaced by a new one that was subsequently used on the 1994 Doubleday edition

2nd UK hbk printing, first by this publisher: Doubleday, 3,700 copies on 1 April 1994 (0-385-40476-X)
500 copies of the first printing had a limitation notice printed on  the front end-paper: ‘No.     of an exclusive first printing of 500 copies of this edition.’, and were signed by the author. They were sold at the same price as those without this notice.

USA: St Martin’s Press, 1525 copies, June 1976 (0-312-18270-8)
These were printed as part of the Smythe print-run, with the American imprint on title, verso, spine and jacket. Invoiced to St Martin’s on 12 March 1976.

USA Braille: transcribed by the American Red Cross

Bulgarian: Тъмната страна на слънцето, trs. Svetlana Komogorova, Prozoretz, August 2000 (954-733-088-8)

Croatian: Zagrabacka Nacklada

Czech: Temná Strana Slunce, trs. Jan Kantörek, Magnet-Press, c. March 1997 (80-85847-76-0)  bankrupt July 1997

 Dutch 2-in-1 pbk: Delven [Strata] — De Donkere Kant van der Zon, Meulenhoff, May 1982 (90-290-1328-1) The Dark Side of the Sun, trs. Arend de Wilde.
First separate edition: De Donkere Kant van de Zon, Meulenhoff-M, May 1994 (90-290-4626-0)

French: La Face Obscure du Soleil, trs. Dominique Haas, Pocket, 16,000 copies on 1 April 1998 (2-266-07290-0) Cleverly used the Kirby illustration for Strata!
New printing with corrected Kirby cover, 27 May 2003 (2-266-11312-7)

German: 1. Der Sonne dunkle Seite, trs. Tony Westermayr, cover illus. Jürgen F.Rogner,  Goldmann, n.d., 10,000 copies on 2 August 1977 (3-442-23254-6)

2. Die dunkle Seite der Sonne, trs. Andreas Brandhorst, Heyne, 1989 (3-453-03902-5)
The first printing used as a cover illustration a detail from one Josh Kirby’s Voyage of the Ayeguy series (1980), ‘Death of a Spaceman’. The 1998 printing used the 1993 Kirby illustration actually painted for the book.
Reissue: Piper, July 2009 (978-3-492-28503-2)
Issued as an ebook: 16 July 2012

Polish: Tylko ty Moüesz uratowaº ludzkoíº, trs. Jarosław Kotarski, Rebis, 2002 (83-7120-490-6)
Retitled: Ciemna strona Słońca, trs. Jarosław Kotarski, Rebis, 2010 (978-83-7510-608-4)

Russian: Sekatchev

 

Strata

UK hbk: Colin Smythe (cover illus. Tim White), 1,001 copies on 15 June 1981 (0-901072-91-5).
With dark green cloth-patterned paper-covered boards.

Pbk: New English Library (cover illus. Tim White), c.5,000 copies, ? May 1982 (0-450-04977-9)
This edition was remaindered by NEL in 1985, and Colin Smythe Ltd. bought about 300 copies, ‘publishing’ them on 20 May 1985. These had a label on the title verso (copyright) page: ‘This edition of Strata is now | published by Colin Smythe Ltd., | Gerrards Cross, | Buckinghamshire | ISBN 0-86140-232-4’. The new ISBN was allocated to ensure that orders were not sent to NEL who would have merely told booksellers that it was ‘out of print’.

2nd UK pbk: Corgi, 39,600 copies on 22 April 1988 (0-552-13325-6)
Originally issued with 192 pages, it was reprinted in 1990. In 1991 it was reset to  increase its length to 208 pages (including advertisements), reprinted in 1992 and 1993. With the 1994 reprint the cover was redesigned, but still used the original Kirby illustration.

2nd UK hbk printing: Doubleday, 3,700 copies on 1 April 1994 (0-385-40475-1)
500 copies of the first printing had a limitation notice printed on the front end-paper: ‘No.     of an exclusive first printing of 500 copies of this edition.’, and were signed by the author. They were sold without publicity at the same price as those without this notice and had no separate ISBN.

USA hbk: St Martin’s Press, 1981 (0-312-76429-4)
2,000 copies produced in UK for St Martin’s Press, being part of the Colin Smythe Ltd print-run. These had a dust jacket on which the back cover was white, with the ISBN in the bottom right hand corner and the price of $10.95 on the front flap.
It was reprinted in the USA (c.2,000 copies), but with page size 20.8 x 13.2 cm., head- and tail-bands, spine blocked gold, and the jacket of which had a solid black back cover, except for a white strip at the foot in which appeared the ISBN, and the printed price was increased to $12.95. The title verso has been modified, adding Library of Congress CIP Data. The line ‘First published in the United States of America in 1981’ has been deleted and the copyright and country of printing lines have been changed. I was later informed that sales had stopped at about 3,800 copies.

USA book club: S.F.Book Club (6493)
Reset to give a 184 page book, page size 20.8 x 13.8 cm., no head- and tail-bands,   spine blocked blue on black paper-covered boards.

USA pbk: (with Ken W.Kelly illustration) Signet/New American Library, March 1983 (0-451-12147-3)
With the third printing, Signet started to use a cover illustration by Darrell K.Sweet under their Roc imprint.
The 4th printing 1991?? had a Roc imprint  and I think a changed ISBN (0-451-45111-2) ?

Bulgarian: Страта, trs.Svetlana Komogorova, Prozoretz, June 2000 (954-733-069-1)

Czech: Strata, trs. Jan Kantörek, Magnet, c. March 1997 (80-85847-78-7) Bankrupt in july 1997

 Dutch 2-in-1 pbk: Delven [Strata] — De Donkere Kant van der Zon, Meulenhoff, May 1982 (90-290-1328-1) Strata trs. Jaime Martijn.
First separate publication: Strata, Meulenhoff-M, 1994 (90-290-4636-8)

French: Strate-à-gemmes, trs. Dominique Haas, Pocket, 15,515 copies on 1 November 1997 (2-266-07288-9)
New cover design (Kirby’s Dark Side of the Sun): 8 July 2005 (2-266-15606-3)

German 1. pbk: Strata oder die Flachwelt, trs. Heinz Zwack, Goldmann (cover illus. Bob Petillo), 1983 (3-442-23434-4)

2. Strata, trs. Andreas Brandhorst, Heyne, 1992 (3-453-05834-8)
Reissue: Piper, July 2004 (978-3-492-28509-4)
Issued as an ebook: 16 July 2012
Issued as a double volume, with Dark Side of the Sun, Piper, October 2012 (978-3-492-26878-3)

Polish: 1. Warstwy Wszechíwiata, trs. Ewa Siarkiewicz, Oficyna Wydawnicza Alma-Press, 1992 (83-7020-136-9)

2. Dysk, trs. JarosUaw Kotarski, Rebis 1999 (83-7120-490-6)
Reissue: Rebis, 2004 (83-7120-807-3)

Russian: Sekatchev

 

 

 

The Unadulterated Cat

illustrated by Gray Jolliffe

UK large format Pbk: Gollancz, 50,250 copies on 5 October 1989 (0-575-04628-7)
Book proof: part-proof, containing sample pages 1, 2 (containing copyright details from 4), 3, 6-14, 18-27, 36-45, 55-63, 82-85, and proof of cover, with folded-in front flap. Quantity unknown, but probably about 200 copies.
Standard pbk: Gollancz, 42,750 copies on 10 September 1992 (0-575-05369-0)
Issued with new cover design: Gollancz, 10,000 copies on 25 May 1995 (0-575-06104-9)
Issued under Gollancz’s Vista imprint , 5,000 copies on 5 December 1996 (0-575-0155-8). Although the title verso of the book states that it was printed in 1997, and I was informed it was to be published on 20 February 1997, royalty sheets give the  earlier date and show sales in the relevant accounting period. Evidently pre-Christmas 1996 sales were greater than expected, so copies of the new printing were sold early.
Issued by Orion Books, November 1999 (0-75283-715-X)
Reissued as hbk, with additional illustrations, and pagination increased from 128pp to 160pp: Gollancz September 2002 (0-7528-5369-4)

Czech: Nefal{ovaná Ko2ka, trs. Tomáë Hrách, Talpress, 1993 (80-85609-19-3)

Dutch: De Echte Kat: Felix vulgaris, trs. Joke Meijer, Het Spectrum, 5,000 copies in 1993 (90-274-3264-3)

Finnish: Tosikissa ei Kirppuja Kiroile, trs. Seppo Hyrkäs, Art House, ?July 1990 (951-884-099-7)

French: Sacrés Chats!, trs. & adapt. Marguerite Schneider-English, City Editions, ?March or April 2004 (2-915320-08-X)

German: 1).Echte Katzen tragen niemals Schleifen, trs. Sonja Hauser, Knaur, January 1991 (3-426-02792-5)

2).retitled Die gemeine Hauskatze, Goldmann, May 2005 (3-442-45557-X)

Hungarian: Az Igazi Macska, trs. Ecsedy Csaba, Gondolat, 1991 (963-282-406-7)

Italian: 1. Il Gatto D.O.C., tr by L.C., Sperling & Kupfer, November 1990 (88-200-1096-8)

2. Salani, 2013 [not yet seen] 

Korean: 순수고양이, trs. Semi Kim, Screen M & B, 2007 (978-89-91919-06-8)

 Polish: Kot w stanie czystym, trs. Piotr W. Cholewa, Prószyński i S-ka, 2005 (83-7469-185-9)

 Russian: 1. Кот без Дураков, Vagrius (Moscow) & Belvagrius (Minsk), 1994 (5-7027-0038-4)

2. Eksmo

Serbian/Yugoslav: trs. Dejan Papi*, Laguna/ReVision 2001 (86-7304-???) not seen

Swedish: Riktigi Katter Bär inte Rosett, trs. Karl G. and Lilian Fredriksson, Legenda, 1990 (91-582-1726-6)

Turkish: Yozlaşmamiş Kedi, trs. Niran Elçi, Ithaki, May 2011 (978-605-375-122-9)

 

 

 

Nation

Winner of the 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2008 .
Recipient of a 2009 Michael L. Printz Honor Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association.
The Independent’s Children’s Book of 2008

UK hbk: Doubleday Young Books With illustrations by Jonny Duddle [not in the US edition], 11 September 2008 (978-0-385-61370-5)
Limited edition of 275 signed copies – the ‘Special Numbered Collectors’ Edition’, bound in a grey metallic flecked cloth with a special design on the front cover, a grey silken bookmark, and photographic end-papers, the front with ‘the Cepheus region including the Pole Star, Northern hemisphere’, and the back with ‘Alpha and Beta Centauri, also four stars forming the constellation of the Southern Cross, Southern hemisphere’. To both of the paste-down end-papers a hermit crab drawn by Johnny Duddle has been added. (978-0-385-61643-0)
‘Waterstones’ Exclusive Limited Edition’ with black jacket, 5,000 numbered copies (978-0-385-61636-2)
Proofs: 120 copies
Trade pbk: Doubleday, 11 September 2008 (978-0-385-61371-2)
Waterstones black cover trade paperback edition, 10,000 copies 4/ June 2009 (for Fathers’ Day) (978-0-385-61712-3)
Pbk. Corgi, 8 October 2009 (978-0-552-55780-1) (B-format: 978-0-552-55779-5)
Special National Theatre poster cover design: Corgi, 26 November 2009 (978-0-552-56194-5)
Black/gold cover: Corgi, 2012 (978-0-552-16237-1)
Large print: ISIS Large Print, 2009 (Hbk 978-0-7531-8432-5; Pbk 978-0-7531-8433-2)

 US hbk: HarperCollins, 22 September 2008 (978-0-06-143301-6; library edn. 978-0-06-143302-3)
Proofs: c. 3,000 copies
Trade pbk: Harper, 1 October 2009 (978-0-06-143303-0)
Library hbk for Pbk: Turtleback 1 October 2009 (978-0-606-12236-8)

Bulgarian: Haųия, trs. Katia Ancheva, Arkhont-Vood, December 2012 (978-954-422-100-3)

Czech: Národ, trs. Jan Kantörek, Talpress, 2010 (978-80-7197-375-1)

Dutch: Volk, trs. Venugopalan Ittekot, Meulenhoff, 2014 (978-90-225-6054-9)

Finnish: Valtio, trs. Mika Kivimäki, Karisto, 2009 (978-951-23-5151-0)

French: Nation, trs. Patrick Couton, L’Atalante, May 2010 (978-2-84172-506-9)

German: Eine Insel, trs. ‘Peder Brehnkmann’ (pseud. of Bernhard Kempen), Manhattan, 2009 (978-3-442-54655-8)
Young hbk: CBT-Verlag, 2009 (978-3-570-13726-0)

Hebrew: א׀מה, trs. Yonatan Bar, Kidmat Eden, 15 September 2009 (317-13)
            Winner of the 2010 Geffen Award for the Best Translated Fantasy Book

Korean: Sigongsa, 2010 (978-89-527-5867-5)

Polish: Nacja, trs. Jerzy Kozłowski, Rebis, 2009 (978-83-7510-367-0) new printing 2014

Portuguese: Saida de Emergencia, November 2010

Russian: Eksmo [trs. ?? Tania Samsonova

Spanish: Nación, trs. Miquel Antón, Timun Mas (Scyla), May 2010 (978-84-480-3838-0)

Turkish: Ulus, trs. Niran Elçi, Tudem, 2009 (978-9944-69-381-3)

 

 

 

Dodger

Named a 2013 ‘Michael L. Prinz Honor Book’ by YALSA, a ‘Kirkus Best Teen Novel for 2012’, and Booklist’s ‘The Top of the List winner for Youth Fiction’

UK hbk: Doubleday 13 September 2012 (978-0-385-61927-1)
Proofs: c. 120 copies
The standard main trade edition (first printing 77,000 copies plus 18,620 copies printed in Australia – with appropriate modifications) and the exclusive editions all have the same ISBN
Exclusive to Waterstones (20,000 copies) and Australia (500 copies) with special jacket and ‘The Wise Words of Solomon Cohen’ at end
Exclusive to W.H.Smith (30,000 copies) and Easons (3,000 copies), with bonus scene at end, Dodger goes to Bedlam to see Sweeney Todd. Both the same except for different stickers on jacket). A trade paperpack for WHS was planned, with an ISBN 978-0-385-61928-8, but this was cancelled, and only the hbk was issued.
Exclusive to Tesco (25,000 copies), with post cards inside front cover
Exclusive to Asda (6,000 copies), with map of Dodger’s London at end
Exclusive to Waterstones (3,000 copies), specially bound, stamped & numbered, slipcased edition (978-0-857-53229-9). Waterstones also had a free sampler of the opening chapter
Pbk: B-format (with opening pages of Raising Steam, Corgi, 26 September 2013 (978-0-552-56314-7)
Pbk: (with the extra chapter ‘Old Comrades’, visiting Bedlam, Corgi, 26 September 2013 (978-0-552-56315-4)

Large print hbk: ISIS, January 2013 (hbk: 978-0-7531-9150-7; pbk, 978-0-7531-9151-4)

USA: HarperCollins, 25 September 2012 (trade 078-9-06-200949-4; library 978-0-06-200950-0; e-book 978-0-06-219015-4)
Bound ‘galley proofs’: 2,887 copies [these were a straight reprint of the UK text, but the published edition was ‘gently’ Americanised…] Pbk. Harper, 24 September 2013 (978-0-06-200951-7)
Library hbk of pbk: Turtleback, 2013 (978-0-606-32170-9)

Bulgarian: Arhont Vuzev

Czech: , trs. Jan Kantörek, Talpress

Finnish: Viemärin Valtias, trs. Mika Kivimäki, Karisto, 2014 (978-951-23-5740-6)

French: Roublard, trs. Patrick Couton, L’Atalante, October 2013 (978-2-84172-650-9)

German: Dunkle halunken, trs. Andreas Brandhorst, ivi/Piper, 17 September 2013 (987-3-492-70301-7)

 Polish: Spryciarz z Londynu, trs. Maciej Szymański, Rebis, 2013 (978-83-7510-980-1)

 Russian: Eksmo

 Spanish: Perillán, trs. Manu Viciano, Fantascy, July 2014 (978-84-15831-23-5)

 

 

 Terry Pratchett presents

Dodger’s Guide to London

(with an especial interest in its underbelly . . . ) Based on original notes penned by Jack Dodger himself

With Sue Cook. Illustrated with contemporary illustrations, and drawings by Paul Kidby

UK Hbk: Doubleday 25 November 2013 (978-0-857-53324-1)
Issued in a standard illustrated green cover, and a special edition for WHSmith with a red cover and different cover illustration.

 German: Jack Dodgers London Guide, trs. Andreas Brandhorst, Piper, 12 May 2014 (978-3-492-70331-4)

 

[The MMXIV Convention book aka The Green portfolio]

Terry Pratchett and Rob Wilkins

1,100 copies privately printed and published by the author, given to those attending the 2014 Discworld Convention at the Palace Hotel, Manchester, 8-11 August 2014 and the 2015 Nullus Anxietas V convention in Australia. Some sold separately, the proceeds going to R.I.C.E.  Signed and/or sealed by the author.

Contents: Dedication; ‘The Bifurcated Trousers of Storytelling’; ‘The Skeleton in the Cavern’; ‘Counterblast’; ‘Terry Pratchett. Rob Wilkins’; ‘A Little Advice for Life’; ‘Ode to Multiple Universes’, First published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov, p. 126.

 

 

Shaking Hands with Death

The BBC’s Richard Dimbleby Lecture

UK pbk: Corgi, 30 July 2015 (978-0-552-17277-6)