The Young Wizards books had a long-standing and friendly relationship with the US side of the SF Book Club. The first “omnibus” edition of the initial three novels, published as Support Your Local Wizard (ISBN: 1568650108) in the late 1980’s, set a record as the single offering most often chosen by new Book Club subscribers, with some 250,000 copies of the first omnibus printed. The artist on this first omnibus cover was Mark Ferrari. The second omnibus, The Young Wizards (ISBN 0-7394-1943-9), published in 1991, contained the first five books and is still in print. The cover was by Yvonne Gilbert.
Single volumes of the YW series have been published by SFBC as well. The Book Club published A Wizard Abroad in its first US edition in 1993, and when the book was in the early production stages, DD suggested that David Cherry do the cover. Brother of DD’s acquaintance, the best-selling SF writer C. J. Cherryh, David is well known for his art — both cover art for some of his sister’s books, and for numerous other projects such as The World of Shannara. …The SFBC also brought out a Book Club edition of A Wizard Alone in 2002.
The SFBC continued this tradition of publishing individual volumes with a new edition of Wizard’s Holiday, offered as a Featured Alternate in March 2004.
