THE COLOUR OF MAGIC

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Alan Smith designed dustwrapper. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased first state dustwrapper that remains without loss or tears. A lovely copy.

The very scarce first novel in the Discworld series, issued in an edition of c.506 copies and originally intended for publication on 10th November 1983. According to the publisher, this was delayed for 14 days in order to reprint and paste over the 'embarrassingly inaccurate' dustwrapper blurb on the front flap. The present example is in the first state dustwrapper, without the later paste-over and therefore one of a handful or so copies sold or distributed by Colin Smythe prior to the 24th November. The majority of the first edition seem to have gone into the British library system, a fate escaped here.

Stock code: 26467

£11,000

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