FIRST EDITION OF THE 38TH DISCWORLD NOVEL – AND THE FOURTH TIFFANY ACHING BOOK
WITH THE UNCOMMON LIMITED-EDITION PRINT OF PAUL KIDBY’S COVER DESIGN
PRATCHETT, Sir Terence David John (‘Terry’). I Shall Wear Midnight. London: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc for Doubleday, 2010.
Octavo (233 x 152mm), pp. [1-8 (half-title, other works by Pratchett, title, colophon, fly-title, verso blank)], 9-[340], [341-342 (illustration, verso blank)], 343-[345] (‘A Feegle Glossary, adjusted for those of a delicate disposition (A Work in Progress By Miss Perspicacia Tick, witch)’), [346 (blank)], 347-[349] (‘Author’s Note’), [3 (blanks)]. Headpieces to each chapter and appendices, full-page illustration at end of text, all after Paul Kidby. Original colour-printed limited edition print after Kidby with Pratchett’s facsimile signature in gilt loose as issued in unopened plastic envelope tipped onto lower pastedown, as issued. (A few light marginal marks.) Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, dark-blue endpapers, dustwrapper with illustrations after Kidby, adhesive label ‘Free limited edition print’ on upper panel, not price-clipped. (Spine very slightly leant, extremities slightly bumped and rubbed, dustwrapper slightly rubbed at edges and with minor bumps and creasing.) A very good copy, with the limited-edition print.
First edition with limited-edition print, apparently only sold through Waterstone’s. The first novel in the acclaimed ‘Discworld’ series was published by Pratchett (1948-2015) in 1983, and I Shall Wear Midnight was the 38th title in the series – and the fourth Tiffany Aching book. I Shall Wear Midnight was first published on 2 September 2010, and it was well received by readers and critics, winning the 2010 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Alongside the standard trade edition and a limited ‘Collector’s Edition’ for Amazon, an edition of 350 copies was sold and signed at midnight at Waterstone’s, Piccadilly, which included a ‘Free Limited Edition Print’ which reproduced Paul Kidby’s design for the dustwrapper. It seems likely that unsigned copies such as this with the ‘Free Limited Edition Print’ in a plastic envelope at the end and a paper sticker on the upper panel of the dustwrapper, were only sold through Waterstone’s – certainly, copies of I Shall Wear Midnight with the limited-edition print are noticeably less common than copies without it.
£29.50
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