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Non--Howard material - written by L. Sprague de Camp
Conan the Buccaneer is a 1971 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 in paperback by Lancer Books, and has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers. It has also been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, French and Dutch. It was later gathered together with Conan the Adventurer and Conan the Wanderer into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990).
Notes
Stated 'First printed in Great Britain by Sphere Books ltd 1975.
Reprinted 1976 (three times), 1977, 1981, 1983.
Cover artist is uncredited. No visible signature. The illustration of the 1971 Lancer edition (credited to Frank Frazetta) is used.
Se almost complete Sphere publishing story.
Edition and production details
- Edition
- Reprint from '83
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Identifiers
- ISBN: 0-7221-4745-7
- Pages
- 157
- Publisher / imprint
- Sphere
- Cover art
- Frank Frazetta
- Illustrations
- None
6 contents entries
- Map of the Hyborian Age (Frontispiece)
- 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 [as by John D. Clark and L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard and David Kyle and P. Schuyler Miller] 6 · artwork
- "Introduction" by Lin Carter
- An Introduction by Lin Carter: Buccaneers and Black Magicians • (1971) • essay by Lin Carter 9 · introduction
- "Conan the Buccaneer" by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
- Conan the Buccaneer • [Conan] • (1971) • novel by Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp 17 · novel
Contributors
- Frank Frazetta Alan Craddock (1988)
- Cover artist
- Frank Frazetta
- 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
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- Conan the Buccaneer
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Date
- 1975 1976 1977 1981 1988
- Source file
- conanthebuccaneer-sphere.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Conan the Buccaneer
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Date
- 1983