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Post by freelance on Oct 2, 2020 19:01:53 GMT -5
I am disappointed that "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" was not included in the Del Rey series. Baen's Robert E. Howard Library series included that tale in their Bran Mak Morn edition. Also disappointing was the lack of James Allison stories and fragments.
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Post by elegos7 on Oct 2, 2020 22:31:08 GMT -5
I am disappointed that "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" was not included in the Del Rey series. Baen's Robert E. Howard Library series included that tale in their Bran Mak Morn edition. Also disappointing was the lack of James Allison stories and fragments. It came out in "Swords of the North" from the REH Foundation Press. This is the only edition in English with the original text of "Marchers of Valhalla", and it has all the James Allison fragments as well.
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Post by freelance on Oct 4, 2020 12:54:45 GMT -5
Yes, that edition from 2014 with a print run of only 200 copies is impossible to find in 2020. As compensation I have relied on volume 5 from the Baen library "Eons of the Night" which has "Marchers of Valhalla" and "Garden of Fear". According to Howardworks.com "attempts to restore the original text" were made in the Baen series.
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Post by elegos7 on Oct 4, 2020 14:36:06 GMT -5
The text of "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" is probably correct in the Baen edition. It is "Marchers of Valhalla" where the original text is only in "Swords of the North" or in French translation in "Les Dieux de Bal-Sagoth" from Bragelonne.
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Post by garbanzo on Nov 30, 2020 18:18:30 GMT -5
I finally decided to treat myself to a set of Conan hardcovers, and I'm baffled by the size/design difference. What's going on here?
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Post by terryallenuk on Dec 1, 2020 13:28:40 GMT -5
Is the Coming a SFBC edition?
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Post by garbanzo on Dec 1, 2020 14:03:18 GMT -5
Yeah that's what I've learned since I got the set. Which is a bummer, because I'm a huge Mark Schultz fan, and that's the volume he illustrated. I'm going to have to sell it and find the proper version.
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Post by Ningauble on Dec 4, 2020 6:32:51 GMT -5
Yeah that's what I've learned since I got the set. Which is a bummer, because I'm a huge Mark Schultz fan, and that's the volume he illustrated. I'm going to have to sell it and find the proper version.
Isn't it the other way around? I don't think volumes 2 and 3 were ever released as standard hardcovers.
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Post by garbanzo on Dec 4, 2020 7:34:13 GMT -5
Yeah that's what I've learned since I got the set. Which is a bummer, because I'm a huge Mark Schultz fan, and that's the volume he illustrated. I'm going to have to sell it and find the proper version.
Isn't it the other way around? I don't think volumes 2 and 3 were ever released as standard hardcovers.
But I posted a picture of them...
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Post by Ningauble on Dec 4, 2020 15:38:44 GMT -5
Isn't it the other way around? I don't think volumes 2 and 3 were ever released as standard hardcovers.
But I posted a picture of them... My point was that it was 2 and 3 that were book club editions, not 1 -- the tpb's were released first and I got those, and upgraded to hc when The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian was released in that format, but then Del Rey announced that sales were not good enough to justify standard hardcovers of the rest of them. I would certainly have found them if 2 and 3 had been available as other than book club editions.
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Post by garbanzo on Dec 4, 2020 16:04:22 GMT -5
OK I checked these on ISFDB, and it looks like we're both right. Book 1 was first printed in this smaller size in 2003, and is an SFBC edition. Then it was published again in 2005 - regular edition and larger size with a few extra plates in the back. Books 2 and 3 are the larger size, and are both SFBC books. So I need to track down the non-SFBC version of book 1 to have a matching set.
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Post by thedarkman on Dec 4, 2020 20:57:16 GMT -5
I didn’t even know these were available in hardcover editions. I always assumed these were softcover only. Damn...
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