The Brave Little Toaster/Editions
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Details and images in this list are mainly derived from ISFDB, which has fuller information.
The Brave Little Toaster was published as its own book only once (that is, once in the US and once in the UK, but it's the same book). Everything else in this list is either an anthology book or a magazine of SF/fantasy stories, so the covers you see here mostly don't have anything to do with this particular story—except for the Gahan Wilson cover of the 1980 F&SF, which shows the scene of the "pirate" being scared by the fake ghost.
US
In The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1980. Cover art: Gahan Wilson.
In The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: 24th Series, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Hardcover. ISBN 0684174901
In The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: 24th Series, Ace Books, 1984. Paperback. Cover art: Tito Salamioni. ISBN 0441054854
Doubleday, 1986. Hardcover. Cover art: Karen Lee Schmidt. ISBN 0385230508
In The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April-May 2009. Cover art: Bryn Barnard.
UK
Grafton, 1986. Hardcover. Same cover & illustrations as the Doubleday edition. Cover art: Karen Lee Schmidt. ISBN 0246130806
Translations
French (translated by Daniel Lemoine): Le brave petit grille-pain. In Fiction #319, OPTA, May 1981. Cover art: Philippe Cousin.
French (translated by Jean-Pierre Pugi): Le vaillant petit grille-pain. In Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction: Thomas Disch,[3] Presses Pocket, 1981. Paperback. Cover art: Marcel Laverdet. ISBN 2-266-00995-8
Japanese (translated by Asakura Hisashi): Isamashii chibi no tōsutā. In Esu-Efu Magajin #280, Hayakawa Shobō, December 1981. Cover art: Katō Naoyuki[4]. ISBN 2-266-00995-8
German (translated by Biggy Winter): Tapferer kleiner Toaster. In Fenster: Die besten Stories aus The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,[5] Heyne, 1982. Paperback. Cover art: Jörg Remé. ISBN 3-453-30752-6
Italian (translated by Simonetta Cioni Carr): Il bravo piccolo tostapane. Una favola per elettrodomestici. In La Signora degli scarafaggi e altri 22 racconti,[6] Mondadori, 1984. Paperback. Cover art: Karel Thole.
German (translated by Biggy Winter): Tapferer kleiner Toaster. In Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1986, Heyne, 1986. Paperback. Cover art: Jörg Remé. ISBN 3-453-31241-4
Swedish (translated by John-Henri Holmberg): Den Modiga lilla brödrosten. In Nova science fiction #17, Gafiak, 2008. Paperback. Cover art: Nicolas Križan.
Footnotes
- ↑ The cover art here is for Stephen King's "The Monkey."
- ↑ This contained Toaster as a backup story; the main feature was Frank Belknap Long's Lest Earth Be Conquered, a.k.a. The Androids, a creepy alien invasion tale from 1966 which they've translated here as "In a Small Town."
- ↑ Title means "The golden book of SF: Thomas Disch."
- ↑ On seeing this cover art, my wife suggested that maybe the sword-fighting robot is in fact the toaster, taking bravery in an unexpected direction. Probably not, but you never know. The magazine's title is just a phonetic spelling of the English, "SF Magazine."
- ↑ Title means "Window: the best stories from F&SF."
- ↑ This is an all-Disch anthology; "La Signora deglie scarafaggi" is the Italian title for Disch's horror story "The Roaches", which the cover art illustrates. If you're not familiar with "The Roaches", this is a pretty good review. It was the first Disch story I happened to read as a kid and it made an impression.