It’s an inn-sewer-ants polly-sea This first Discworld novel introduces us to Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, wizards, the nature of magic and a number of Discworld locations that do not appear in the later books; unfortunately these locations are largely missing from the stamps The $1 Discworld stamp issued by the Ankh-Morpork Post Office The story revolves around Rincewind, the inept and failed wizard, and Twoflower newly arrived in Ankh-Morpork from the Agatean Empire, the Discworld`s first tourist. Twoflower arrives with The Luggage, a chest of sapient pearwood, with many small feet. It is virtually indestructible, thoroughly loyal, and has the ability to defend itself. Twoflower also arrives with gold coinage worth as much as Ankh-Morpork itself; gold being common and almost worthless in Agatea. Rincewind is charged by The Patrician to look after Twoflower to prevent him being fleeced by just about anybody in the city, while the Merchants Guild is hastily formed to ensure more of that gold legitimately ends up with them rather than the Thieves Guild. The Merchants Guild $5 from the Year of the Prawn shows the Ankh-Morpork docks with ship being unladen and goods taken by wagon. This stamp was more of a promisory note than a postage stamp.    The Penny Farthing stamp from the initial set issued by the Merchants Guild and sponsored by the Grocers and Purveyors of Dry Goods and Rincewind as he appears in the Royal Mail Magical realms special issue Twoflower`s profession is selling in-sewer-ants polly seas, and his big mistake is to sell one to the owner of the Broken Drum, which coincidentally catches fire that very night and starts a city wide conflagration. It is, of course, rebuilt quite swiftly as The Mended Drum. Rincewind and Twoflower flee the city, beginning a series of out-of-fryng pan adventures across Discworld. The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork was marked  with a special stamp in the Year of the Lachrymating Leveret. The Mended Drum as featured on the $1 stamp fromthe Merchants Guild Places of Interest series         They meet the Dryads, the tree spirits of the Forest of Skund while trying to escape from bears, bees and wolves. Rincewind damages a tree for which the sentence is death. However the Dryad can read the Great Spell in his mind. The ensuing mayhem allows them to escape ...... resulting for them to accidentally enter the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth, the Sender of Eight. Bel Shamharoth may be a demon from the Dungeon Dimensions who has clung onto Discworld citizenship. This does not make him nice. They next meet the Dragonriders of the Wyrmburg, an upside down hollow mountain where pure thought can create a dragon. The pair end up in Krull at the Rimfall - the very edge of the Disc. Krull is noted for the Circumfence which stops ships and flotsam falling over the Rim providing the Krullians with physical and financial resources, and astrozoology. Here they meet Dactylos, the creator of the Light Dams of the Great Nef. He has created a space capsule to be launched over the edge of the Disc in order to ascertain the sex of A’tuin, the space turtle on whose back the Disc resides. The story continues with The Light Fantastic. The Wyrmberg as shown on the Cruel and Unusual Geography six pence stamp.and Bel-Shamaroth illustrate the cover of The Octavo on this Unseen University farthing stamp. A used example of a Wincanton label showing a close relative to the Great Dragons of Discworld.     The Krull One Flot stamp showing Dactylos`s Potent Voyager spacecraft.         The Light Dams of the Great Nef are another example of Dactylos`s inventive mind A`tuin from the 25th Anniversary of Discworld novels by Sir Terry,   Captain Eightpanther`s Digestives are famous amongst travelers for being quite indigestible. The cover is notable for the Smoking Wahoonie stamp used Unknown to the pair, throughout these adventures they are but unknowing pawns in a game being played by the Gods. They do not often fight amongst themselves,. Instead they prefer to pit believers against believers, so those with the most or most fervent followers win.. The Lady is winning this particular game which explains how Rincewind and Twoflower keep avoiding sudden death. The all-seeing Blind Io as chief of the Gods acts as referee, while the other gods such as Offler, the Crocodile God of the Klatchian continent, are eliminated one by one. The five pence Blind Io stamp issued by the AMPO Offler as he appears on the 5 Ptascp stamp from Djelibeybi

This story is continued with The Light Fantastic ......