Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen (jacket illustration by Paul Kidby)

 UK hbk: Ebury Press (Random House) 33,500 copies on 2 May 2002 (0-091-88273-7)
The book proof (quantity uncertain) has 328pp as opposed to the published edition 368pp including index (lacking in the proof)
Bookclub pbk: BCA. 5,000 copies (although a paperback it has the same ISBN as the hbk trade edition)
pbk: Ebury Press, 1 May 2003 (0-091-88805-0)
B-format, and revised cover: Ebury Press 11 April 2013 (978-0-091-95171-9)

USA: Anchor 20 January 2015 (978-0-8041-6896-0; eBook 978-0-8041-6897-7) )

Czech: Koule, trs. Jan Kantůrek and Dana Krejčevá, Talpress, 2006 (80-7197-277-0)

French: La Science du Disque-Monde II. Le Globe, trs. Patrick Couton & Lionel Davoust, L’Atalante, April 2009 (978-2-84172-463-5)

 German: Rettet die Rundwelt! Die Gelehrten de Scheibenwelt 2, trs. Andreas Brandhorst and Erik Simon, Heyne, March 2003 (3-453-886174-4] Published by Piper, as Die Philosophen der Rundwelt, September 2004 (3-492-28522-8)
Reissued with new cover design: Piper, August 2006 (3-492-28621-6, 978-3-492-28621-3), 3rd printing with modified cover, May 2010
Reissued with new cover, by Katarzyna Oleska: Piper December 2012 (978-3-492-26915-5)
(On the first printing the cover illustrations of the first two volumes in the series were transposed, to be corrected on the reprint.) Reprinted March 2014

Polish: Nauka Świata Dysku II: Glob, trs. Piotr W.Cholewa, ProszyÕski i Ska, 7,800 copies on 22 May 2005 or 17 May 2005 (83-7337-641-0) [not yet clarified contradictory information]

Russian: Eksmo  [not yet published]