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/pothkan SPQN Feb 11 '20

Большое спасибо for all your help!

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u/TitanIsBack Feb 11 '20

пожалуйста! The more people know about them the better. When I got into collecting them there wasn't much of a resource online about different versions. I had to use the help of my mother to track down different ones.

There are two more that I have, they only contain portions of short stories in a polish fantasy compilation. If that's of interest to you, I could give you information about them as well. That website I linked you earlier has them, and is a very good resource for information about the many different versions.

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u/pothkan SPQN Feb 11 '20

That website I linked you earlier has them, and is a very good resource for information about the many different versions.

Yeah, I'm browsing through it myself ;-)