Witch World

US Ace paperback original is the true first, confirming the census claim; there is no earlier hardcover and no UK edition preceding it. The first hardcover is Gregg Press (Boston) 1977, issued as volume 1 of the seven-volume set The Witch World Novels of Andre Norton, in a first printing of about 1,200 sets sold largely to libraries — dealers correctly catalog it as "First Edition Thus," and it is a first-hardcover/first-thus trap, not the true first. Collectors seeking the true first must buy the wrappered Ace F-197.