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''I don't believe this,''  Nita thought. She shut the book and stood there holding it in her hand, confused, amazed, suspicious...and ''delighted.''  If it was a joke, it was a great one. If it wasn't...?"
 
''I don't believe this,''  Nita thought. She shut the book and stood there holding it in her hand, confused, amazed, suspicious...and ''delighted.''  If it was a joke, it was a great one. If it wasn't...?"
  
[[Image:SYWTBAW Wiesner Hardcover.jpg|left|thumb|200px|1983 Delacorte first edition hardcover]] [[Image:SYWTBAW McPheeters MM Paperback.jpg|left|thumb|186px|1986 Dell Laurel Leaf mass market paperback]] [[Image: SYWTBAW UK Mass Market Paperback.jpg|left|thumb|179px|UK Corgi mass market paperback]]
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[[Image:SYWTBAW Wiesner Hardcover.jpg|left|thumb|200px|1983 US Delacorte first edition hc]] [[Image:SYWTBAW McPheeters MM Paperback.jpg|left|thumb|186px|1986 US Dell Laurel Leaf mass market pb]] [[Image: SYWTBAW UK Mass Market Paperback.jpg|left|thumb|179px|1991 UK Corgi mass market pb]]
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[[Image:SYWTBAW Harcourt Bower Mass Market Paperback.jpg|left|thumb|187px|1996 US Harcourt mass market pb]]

Revision as of 11:02, 27 March 2009

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Current mass-market edition of SYWTBAW

The first novel in the Young Wizards series.

Publication history (English-language only. Foreign editions have separate entries under their own titles):

  • US first edition hardcover, Delacorte Press, 1983: ISBN 0-385-29035-4.
  • US first mass-market paperback, Laurel-Leaf Books, 1986: ISBN 0-440-98252-9.
  • UK first mass-market paperback edition: Corgi Books, 1991: ISBN 0-552-52645-2.

Subsequent US mass-market paperback editions:

  • Magic Carpet Books, June 1996: ISBN 0-15-201239-7.
  • Troll Books paperback edition: same ISBN as Magic Carpet MM.

Subsequent US hardcover editions:

  • 20th-anniversary hardcover edition, Harcourt Books, July 2003: ISBN 0-15-204738-7.

(Please note that this list is not yet complete.)

Back-cover blurb:

"Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books, a little library-bound volume in shiny red buckram, had a loose thread at the top of its spine, on which her finger had caught. She pulled the finger free, glanced at the title. It was one of those "So You Want to Be a..." books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot there had been, and So You Want to Be a Scientist... a Nurse... a Writer...

But this one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard.

I don't believe this, Nita thought. She shut the book and stood there holding it in her hand, confused, amazed, suspicious...and delighted. If it was a joke, it was a great one. If it wasn't...?"

File:SYWTBAW Wiesner Hardcover.jpg
1983 US Delacorte first edition hc
File:SYWTBAW McPheeters MM Paperback.jpg
1986 US Dell Laurel Leaf mass market pb
File:SYWTBAW UK Mass Market Paperback.jpg
1991 UK Corgi mass market pb