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cover art by jack gaughan (credited)
b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan (signed with his "jg" digraph) (both retained from first edition)
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° - publication date presumably from ace image library or published secondary source e.g. donald h. tuck's encyclopedia of science fiction (this comment is from another edition of this book)
ok, i think that's the witch world series of serieses sorted - see comment dated 31/3/2018.
any corrections, adjustments etc. "out there" ?°
(° - especially on the nature of the two? pieces in the "witch world: the turning" books #2 & #3:
i can't get at most of my books that were in i.m.t. during the madness of its last ten days - and amn't even certain i still have copies of the tor mmpbs. . .) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
#1: "witch world" (1963) (this novel)
#2: "web of the witch world" (1964), q.v.
#3: "three against the witch world" (1965), q.v.
#4: "warlock of the witch world" (1967), q.v.
#5: "sorceress of the witch world" (1968), q.v.
#6: "trey of swords" (1977), q.v.
#7: "'ware hawk" (1983), q.v.
#8: "the gate of the cat" (1987), q.v.
witch world connected series:
high hallack:
hh#1: "horn crown" (1981), q.v.
hh#2: "year of the unicorn" (1965), q.v.
hh#3: "spell of the witch world" (1972), q.v.
hh#4: "the jargon pard" (1974), q.v.
hh#5: "zarsthor's bane" (1978), q.v.
hh#6: "songsmith" by andré norton and a. c. crispin (1992), q.v.
high hallack: the crystal gryphon:
cg#1: "the crystal gryphon" (1972), q.v.
cg#2: "gryphon in glory" (1981), q.v.
cg#3: "gryphon's eyrie" by andré norton and a. c. crispin (1984), q.v.
collection of stories by andré norton including witch world stories:
"lore of the witch world" (1980), q.v.
includes three witch world stories (a novella, a novelette and a short story)
(- out of two short stories, three novelettes, and two novellas total contents)
witch world original anthologies series edited by andré norton:
#1: "tales of the witch world" (1987)
aka "tales of the witch world 1" (1989), q.v.
(includes "of the shaping of ulm's heir" by andré norton)
#2: "tales of the witch world 2" (1989), q.v.
#3: "tales of the witch world 3" (1990), q.v.
witch world original anthology edited by andré norton:
"four from the witch world" (1989) q.v.
witch world: the turning
trilogy of omnibus books each containing (at least) two novels:
#1: "storms of victory" (1991), q.v.
contains: "port of dead ships" by andré norton,
and "seakeep" by p. m. griffin.
#2: "flight of vengeance" (1992), q.v.
contains "exile" by mary h. schaub,
and "falcon hope" by p. m. griffin,
"book-ended" by two uncredited short stories:
"the chronicler" and "flight of vengeance".
#3: "on wings of magic" (1994), q.v.
contains "we, the women" by patricia mathews (usually by-lined, "patricia matthews"),
and "falcon magic" by sasha miller,
the two novels being introduced by a short story,
"the chronicler" by andré norton.
(the second and third books might also be considered to be original anthologies
- as, arguably, might the first:
but it's probably not very useful to classify them differently from one another)
(n.b. i have not compared the texts of the two pieces entitled "the chronicler".)
"a chronicle of the witch world"
novel of a young woman whose life touched many others at the time of the turning:
"ciara's song" by andré norton & lyn mcconchie (1988), q.v.
witch world secrets:
#1: "the key of the keplian" by andré norton & lyn mcconchie (1995), q.v.
#2: "the magestone" by andré norton & mary h. schaub (1996), q.v.
#3: "the warding of witch world" by andré norton (1996), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)