the main series:
#1: ''the eye of the world'' (1990) (this novel)
#1a: ''from the two rivers'' (2002), q.v.
#1b: ''to the blight'' (2002), q.v.
#2: ''the great hunt'' (1990), q.v.
#2a: ''the hunt begins'' (2004), q.v.
#2b: ''new threads in the pattern'' (2004), q.v.
#3: ''the dragon reborn'' (1991), q.v.
#4: ''the shadow rising'' (1992), q.v.
#5: ''the fires of heaven'' (1993), q.v.
#6: ''lord of chaos'' (1994), q.v.
#7: ''a crown of swords'' (1996), q.v.
#8: ''the path of daggers'' (1998), q.v.
#9: ''winter's heart'' (2000), q.v.
#10: ''crossroads of twilight'' (2003), q.v.
#11: ''knife of dreams'' (20005), q.v.
#12: ''the gathering storm'' (2009), q.v.
#12 was intended by robert jordan to be the final final volume of the sometimes seemingly interminable series he'd accidentally spawned in 1990; he was unable to draw all plot threads to a conclusion and finish it before he died. using jordan's manuscript and notes, brandon sanderson took on the task of bringing it into publishable form, in the course of which it was agreed with his editor at tor that there would need to be two further novels to do justice to the scale of the task - and robert jordan's creation:
the main series' final books published as written by robert jordan and brandon sanderson:
#13: ''towers of midnight'' (2010), q.v.
#14: ''a memory of light'' (2013), q.v.
it is unclear as to the degree of collaboration that occurred after robert jordan's death 16/9/2007.
non-fiction concerning and detailing the fictional world and its nature:
n. ''the world of robert jordan's the wheel of time'' robert jordan and teresa patterson (1997), q.v.
first uk a format p/b 12/1991
preceded by first uk h/cvr 7/1990, first uk tp/b 4/1991
all sharing tor books (2/1990 u.s.) original
cover art by darrell k. sweet (credited to darrell sweet in tor books h/cvr, tp/b)
cover price £5.99
832pp? including titles, indica, b+w illustration, maps, etc, end pp.
n.b. isbn publisher code (0)-7474- was originally issued to sphere books
(sold to penguin books when thompson books, newspapers & book distribution broken up,
sold onto the bouncing czech, robert maxwell's macdonald futura (publishers) less some assets,
which publishing conglomerate was sold onto warner books by the liquidator, after that crooked publisher drowned taking an ill-advised leak in the mediterranean from the deck of his yacht...).
reprinted with this cover art many times through at least 1998 11th printing bearing
isbn 1-85723-076-0
cover price rising £5.99, £6.99
before being replaced with a largely typographical design on a black ground by lee gibbons
(though a band of darrell sweet's art is retained down the margin of the back cover fly edge).
isbn 1-85723-076-0 retained
cover price £7.99
° a thin 288pp. ''a format'' uk p/b of the first eighteen chapters of ''the eye of the world'' bearing this same title on the title page, ''the wheel of time'' on front cover and spine, new cover art by darrell sweet, was published as a free promotional item; this was published in 1997 as an orbit uk p/b by little, brown and company (uk); it may have been published previously in the uk by macdonald publishers as a futura / orbit p/b and/or an orbit p/b c. 1994 - and may also have appeared with cover prices of variously 95p and £1.25 upon it - bearing a different isbn.
date of this lee gibbons front cover design printing is^W was wrong and may still need to be further corrected.
it cannot be earlier than 1999 or the early 2000s as darrell sweet's art was used on all orbit editions through at least 1998. (this comment is from another edition of this book)