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Literary swordsmen and sorcerers : the makers of heroic fantasy / L. Sprague de Camp.

Title: Literary swordsmen and sorcerers : the makers of heroic fantasy / L. Sprague de Camp.
Author: De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907-2000
Publication: Sauk City, Wis. : Arkham House, c1976.

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Description

xxix, 313 p., 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Dust jackets.

Note

"Five thousand copies of this book have been printed and bound by The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, from Linotype Garamond composed by Fox Valley Typesetting, Menasha, Wisconsin, by Web Offset on 50# Nekoosa Vellum. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex." -- colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provenance (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 24-1308 inscribed in black ink, on title page “For Carter- L.Sprague de Camp, 10/29/83.”
Copy in Berg Coll 24-1309 inscribed in blue ink, on title page “L.Sprague de Camp.”

Binding (note)

Copies in Berg Coll 24-1308 and Berg Coll 24-1309 bound in publishers' black cloth over boards; with original dust jacket designed by Tim Kirk and author photograph by E. B. Boatner.

Local note

Copies in Berg Coll 24-1308 and Berg Coll 24-1309 acquired from Carter Burden, 1987.
Copy in Berg Coll 24-1308 has an Arkham House publicity slip laid-in.

Contents

The swords of faerie.--Jack of all arts: William Morris.--Two men in one: Lord Dunsany.--Eldritch Yankee gentleman: H.F. Lovecraft.--Superman in a bowler: E.R. Eddison.--The miscast barbarian: Robert E. Howard.--Parallel worlds: Fletcher Pratt.--Sierran Shaman: Clark Ashton Smith.--Merlin in tweeds: J.R.R. Tolkien.--The architect of Camelot: T.H. White.--Conan's compeers.

Call Number

JFD 78-411

ISBN

0870540769

LCCN

76017991

OCLC

2782776
NYPG784023156-B

Author

De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907-2000.

Title

Literary swordsmen and sorcerers : the makers of heroic fantasy / L. Sprague de Camp.

Imprint

Sauk City, Wis. : Arkham House, c1976.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provenance

Copy in Berg Coll 24-1308 inscribed in black ink, on title page “For Carter- L.Sprague de Camp, 10/29/83.” NN

Copy in Berg Coll 24-1309 inscribed in blue ink, on title page “L.Sprague de Camp.” NN

Binding

Copies in Berg Coll 24-1308 and Berg Coll 24-1309 bound in publishers' black cloth over boards; with original dust jacket designed by Tim Kirk and author photograph by E. B. Boatner. NN

Local Note

Copies in Berg Coll 24-1308 and Berg Coll 24-1309 acquired from Carter Burden, 1987.

Copy in Berg Coll 24-1308 has an Arkham House publicity slip laid-in.

Added Author

Kirk, Tim, 1947- bookjacket designer.

Burden, Carter, donor, former owner.

Arkham House, publisher.

Fox Valley Typesetting, compositor.

Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.), printer.

Carter Burden Science Fiction Collection.

Research Call Number

JFD 78-411

Berg Coll 24-1308

Berg Coll 24-1309

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