I wonder if there's a way to narrow down the chances: what city(ies) the moves were in, when, what neighborhood(s), and anything about the buildings she moved to/from? Perhaps used book sellers/dealers in the city(ies) where the book might have got lost?
terry signed my first discworld novel in person and losing it during an emergency move was one of the hardest material losses i have experienced, i hope the book finds its way back to them
Seems it would have been around London and it was purchased around 1998, lost around 2000. They acknowledge it’s a slim to none chance of finding it but the internet exists for ridiculous things so who knows.
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort
Tills & Company bookshop in Edinburgh currently has a large selection of original hardback Discworld titles. Pretty sure Hogfather is one of them. Unlikely to be the exact copy OP lost but there’s a million to one chance…
I just read that Thread this morning, so I shuffled over here to find it. I found out you need to put quotes around Hogfather or you only get people with the word in their name. #Hogfather
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(Pratchett's Law)
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort
- Moving Pictures scene, preparing to defeat the heart of the mall
My bad
Do we know the ISBN for it in hard copy?
Good luck, I do hope you get lucky on this.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/hogfather/author/pratchett-terry/first-edition/
(I don't, just that this post is unclear, especially the more times it gets shared and crossposted.)