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First
revised edition: December 2007
Originally published in 1973 by Ballantine Books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kurtz, Katherine.
High Deryni / Katherine Kurtz.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-0885-4
1. Deryni (Fictitious characters)—Fiction. 2. Gwynedd (Imaginary place)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.U69H54 2007
813'.54—dc22 2007021621