r/wiedzmin • u/pothkan SPQN • Feb 10 '20

Books Guide to editions of the Witcher books

This is a little project I compiled in last days, being an expansion on my previous covers of the Last Wish post. I wanted to list, and sort, all editions of books in the Witcher series, published in various languages (30 + Polish). Result of that ended in shape of a PDF file (6 MB) - which you can now browse and download!

Here is a sneak peek, if you can't right now (e.g. mobile), but want to see what is inside.

Take in mind, that it's still a WIP (supposed to by updated in future, at least once a year - as we can expect more editions after Netflix boosted series' popularity). So if you have anything to add or correct - please do! E.g. I miss many covers' artist names.

Besides that, here are some specific questions:

  • Which editions are sold in English-speaking countries except UK & USA?. I suppose American editions are sold in Canada, but what about e.g. Australia, South Africa, Singapore, New Zealand?

  • Are there any pirated editions, other than Iranian ones?

  • How is a witcher called in Dutch, Greek, Portuguese (European), Romanian, Swedish and Turkish translations?

  • Last but not least, which edition(s) do you own? :) And what do you think about it, both quality-wise, and translation itself?

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u/CrivilNite Civril Feb 10 '20 edited Feb 10 '20

Afaik (and i know a bit, managing an spanish witcher related forum since 2013) there're not out of Spain spanish editions, all south/central american ones are from Bibliopolis/Alamut/Artifex, which are seals of the same spaniard editorial.

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u/pothkan SPQN Feb 10 '20

So in general, there's no market division in Spanish editions at all? Just want to be clear, there is BR/PT, TW/CN and UK/US division (although first two include some language difference), I supposed it's possible for Spanish too :)

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u/CrivilNite Civril Feb 10 '20

There're but not in this case, Alamut is a kinda small Spanish editorial (it survived mostly cause Sapkowski success along the years) with 3 seals, but all three are for spanish market with american books been just importations.

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u/pothkan SPQN Feb 10 '20

(it survived mostly cause Sapkowski success along the years)

SuperNOWA pretty much publishes nothing else, they hit a jackpot with him. And they don't even have much work to do (Sapkowski is known to be a perfectionist, not much is needed to be corrected / adjusted). Heck, in one of boxed sets they even didn't change typesetting (it was a different font for 1-7 and SoS).

It would be probably better with bigger publisher, like German or Russian one.