Cover image unavailableIntroduction
Non--Howard material - written by L. Sprague de Camp
Conan of the Isles is a fantasy novel by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.
It was first published October 1968 in paperback by Lancer Books, and reprinted in July 1970, 1972, and May 1973; publication was then taken over by Ace Books, which reprinted the novel in May 1977, May 1979, April 1980, July 1981, April 1982, November 1982, November 1983, June 1984, September 1986, February 1991, and May 1994. The first British edition was published in paperback by Sphere Books in December 1974 a number of times since by various publishers It has also been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.
Notes
Reprinted 1976 (twice), 1981, 1982
Copyright © L. Sprague de Camp 1968.
First printed in Great Britain by Sphere Books ltd 1974.
Cover artist is mistakenly credited as Frank Frazetta. The illustration of the 1968 Lancer edition is used. This is credited to John Duillo.
Other prices: Australia A$3.95, Malta £1.25.
Se almost complete Sphere publishing story.
Edition and production details
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Reprint from '82
- Edition format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Identifiers
- ISBN: 0-7221-4747-8
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher / imprint
- Sphere
- Cover art
- John Duillo
- Illustrations
- None
8 contents entries
- "Introduction" by L. Sprague de Camp
- A Map of the World of Conan in the Hyborian Age • (1966) • interior artwork by John D. Clark, Ph.D. and L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard and David A. Kyle and P. Schuyler Miller 6 · artwork
- "Conan of the Isles" by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
- Introduction (Conan the Wanderer) • (1968) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp 9 · introduction
- Black Tears • [Conan] • (1968) • novelette by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp 13 · novelette
- Shadows in Zamboula • [Conan] • (1935) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 40 · novelette
- The Devil in Iron • [Conan] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 73 · novelette
- The Flame Knife • [Conan] • (1955) • novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard 106 · novelette
Contributors
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Introduction author
- John Duillo Blas Gallego
- Cover artist
- John Duillo
- Cover artist
Additional related terms
Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.
Bibliographic and editorial layers
Bibliographic source layer
- Title
- Conan of the Isles
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Date
- 1974 1976 1977 1982 1989
- Source file
- conanoftheisles-sphere.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Conan of the Isles
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Date
- 1982