The Honorable Barbarian

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1989. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Leather. First Edition (stated), signed by L. Sprague de Camp. Publisher's full brown leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt decoration on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth-sewn with concealed muslin joints. Illustrated with full-color frontispiece illustration by Darrell K. Sweet. Introduction by James Gunn. Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907-2000) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction during the genre's heyday in the 1930s and '40s. De Camp was a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loosely-knit group of Heroic fantasy writers that was founded during the 1960s and led by Lin Carter, with entry by credentials as a fantasy writer alone. Beginning in 1968, de Camp wrote the "Novarian series," of which the core is the "Reluctant King" trilogy, beginning with "The Goblin Tower," de Camp's most accomplished effort in the genre. The trilogy features the adventurer Jorian, ex-king of Xylar. Jorian's world is an alternate reality to which our own serves as an afterlife. Other novels in the sequence include "The Fallible Fiend," a satire told from the point of view of a demon, and this book, "The Honorable Barbarian," a follow-up to the trilogy featuring Jorian's brother as the hero. . The former owner's special Easton Press "Signed First Editions of Science Fiction" bookplate is tipped-in on the fep, otherwise this is a pristine copy, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. FINE. . The Signed First Editions of Science Fiction Series. Color Frontispiece. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 240 pp. Signed by Author .