12mo (6.75' x 4.25') 5th in series, preceded by Witch World, Web of the Witch World, Three Against the Witch World, and Warlock of the Witch World and followed by Trey of Swords, Ware Hawk, and The Gate of the Cat.The offspring of Simon Tregarth, half earthling, half witch-brood, realized that they alone could perceive the four directions - for everyone else, there was no East! Ace mass paperback, 1976 reprinting, ISBN: 9780441775538, 224 pages, cover art by Jeff Jones. Cover has crease near spine pages clean and unmarked. First entry in long running Witch World series.Īnother book in the series: Sorceress of Witch World: Spine has faint crease, but is straight, not canted or curved. 28th place, 1998 Locus poll, All-Time Best Fantasy Novel before 1990. Faint reading crease on cover near spine. Here is a lovely reprint, with teriffic cover art, from 1984.Īlmost like new, near fine condition. Tregarth rescues the witch, whom he much later learns is named Jaelithe, and enters the service of her homeland Estcarp, a land ruled by witches and threatened by many enemies. He arrives in a nearly empty countryside, just in time to witness a savage hunt: a lone woman being chased down by hounds followed by two horsemen. Disbelieving, but with little to lose, Tregarth gives up all the money he has left, and is transported to a land where magic vies with more mundane swords and bows. Petronius recounts a fantastic tale of a stone of power, the Siege Perilous of Arthurian legend, that has the power of opening a gateway to a world attuned to the person who sits on it. Jorge Petronius, a man with an amazing reputation for hiding men in dire straits. After months on the run, killing at least two of these assassins, he knows his time is running out. He later also managed to anger a powerful criminal organization enough for it to send assassins after him. In post-war Berlin, he became involved, almost accidentally, in the black market, only to be caught and discharged in disgrace from the Army. It inaugurated the Witch World series and established a setting that she eventually shared with other writers.ĭuring World War II, Simon Tregarth rose from a common soldier in the U.S.

Witch World is a science fantasy novel by American writer Andre Norton, published as a paperback original by Ace Books in 1963.

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