COMING OF CONAN
de HOWARD, Robert E
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/good
- Librería
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Gnome Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo, 224 pages, red cloth; DJ tape reinforced on verso, with 'shadows' on outside, nicked. Ex libris Roy Curley, 1957.
Fourth volume in this series: it tells the origins of Conan the Cimmerian. It also includes a letter from Howard which reveals his feelings about Conan; Part 1 of Howard's essay, "The Hyperborean Age," and a letter from H. P. Lovecraft to Donald Wollheim that shows a keen insight and analysis of Howard's ability as a writer.
Fourth volume in this series: it tells the origins of Conan the Cimmerian. It also includes a letter from Howard which reveals his feelings about Conan; Part 1 of Howard's essay, "The Hyperborean Age," and a letter from H. P. Lovecraft to Donald Wollheim that shows a keen insight and analysis of Howard's ability as a writer.
Sinopsis
"Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . . there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. . . . Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand . . . to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created--a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers.In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years before his tragic suicide, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. Collected in this volume, profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions--in some cases for the first time in more than seventy years--and in the order Howard wrote them. Along with classics of dark fantasy like "The Tower of the Elephant" and swashbuckling adventure like "Queen of the Black Coast," The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian contains a wealth of material never before published in the United States, including the first submitted draft of Conan's debut, "Phoenix on the Sword," Howard's synopses for "The Scarlet Citadel" and "Black Colossus," and a map of Conan's world drawn by the author himself.Here are timeless tales featuring Conan the raw and dangerous youth, Conan the daring thief, Conan the swashbuckling pirate, and Conan the commander of armies. Here, too, is an unparalleled glimpse into the mind of a genius whose bold storytelling style has been imitated by many, yet equaled by none.
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- Librería
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000955
- Título
- COMING OF CONAN
- Autor
- HOWARD, Robert E
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Gnome Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1953
- Palabras clave
- FANTASY, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft,
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Chicago, Illinois
Sobre Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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