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Best Young Adult Writer in Locus magazine’s annual poll, a Hugo award nomination, and a World Fantasy award for lifetime achievement. In 2010 he and Martin Amis tied as winner of the outstanding achievement award in the National Book Awards. The Discworld, a rich and evolving fantasy land comprised of interlinking sub-series of novels, is Pratchett’s legacy. While his career extended its bounds, his other works have been overshadowed by the antics of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, the ineptitude of the Unseen University’s wizards, and the practical witchcraft of Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Og. In the words of “one of [Pratchett’s] finest creations” (BBC), Death, “no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away” ( Reaper Man ). 40 works. 2 quarto, 38 octavo. Original variously coloured boards, spines lettered, many with coloured endpapers, Hat Full of Sky with black silk book marker. With pictorial dust jackets. Quarto volumes illustrated throughout by Josh Kirby, several other volumes with illustrated chapter headers and footers. An excellent set, mostly near-fine condition, The
Colour of Magic with front inner hinge just starting and a little soiling to a few pages, three jackets price-clipped, one jacket with remnants of tape repair. ¶ Andrew M. Butler et al ., Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature , 2004; A. S. Byatt, “A comforting way of death”, The Guardian , 9 Nov. 2002; Christopher Priest, “Sir Terry Pratchett obituary”, The Guardian , 12 Mar. 2015; “Sir Terry Pratchett obituary”, BBC, 12 Mar. 2015. £30,000 [151736]
Terry. Complete Discworld Series. Gerards Cross/London: various publishers, 1983–2013 “IT WAS OCTARINE, THE COLOUR OF MAGIC . . . IT WAS THE UNDISPUTED PIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION” The The complete series of Discworld books published during the author’s life, all first editions, nine inscribed by the author, the rest signed. The Shepherd’s Crown (2015) was published posthumously, and is not included here. Lauded as the “Dickens of the 20th century” by Mark Thomas (Butler, viii) and a “master storyteller” by A. S. Byatt, Pratchett was, and will remain, one of the most popular British authors of all time: “only the career of J. K. Rowling is comparable” (Priest). Upon his death, his books had been translated into 38 languages, and had earned him a wealth of accolades: fantasy and science fiction awards in the 1995 British book awards,
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