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Wow! You've been holding out! That is awesome!

Wonderful Amazings from everyone!

Wow, Steve! THe pulp bug has bitten you hard. Congrats on some great books!

Great books, Ryan!

Ne neither - he makes Conan look like Schwarzenegger , who was once described as "resembling a condom stuffed with walnuts." Hopefully Jason Mamoa will look a lot more like Conan in the new film.

Not a huge Boris Vallejo fan, but that is a classic cover!

You got it. Brundage chose a different subject matter from that same story:

It's one of the plates from the second Wandering Star Conan volume. It's Conan and Olgerd Vladislav from "A Witch Shall Be Born." (thumbs u

Black Adder?! Sweet - I love Rowan Atkinson. Here are some of REH's yarns from Oriental Stories and Magic Carpet: The Voice of El-Lil Hawks of Outremer The Blood of Belshazzar The Sowers of the Thunder Lord of Samarcand The Lion of Tiberias Alleys of Darkness The Shadow of the Vulture Most of these are tales of the crusades and there's some good stuff here - BOOM! Studios recently did a comic adaptation of Hawks of Outremer. As I mentioned before Shadow of the Vulture is the first and only appearance of Red Sonya in her original format (before she became the Red Sonja of Roy Thomas). Alley of Darkness is a humorous boxing stories written under one of REH's pen names, Patrick Ervin.

Since we're showing off paintings of an oriental nature, let me take one more opportunity to plug my favorite modern illustrator again - Gary Gianni.

I think the challenge might be to find them all in at least VG condition but since I already have a set, I don't pay too much attention to their current availability. Theagenes could probably tell you if they are truly scarce or not. They're definately scarcer than their WT counterparts, but they are out there. Better than VG is tough to come by though. I'm fast learning that all of the best pulps are probably locked up in old school collections.

Wow, these are stunning. I've never seen the one on the right, its amazing. It contains the the REH story "The Shadow of the Vulture" which is the first appearance of Red Sonya. I was the underbidder on a gorgeous copy a couple of months ago.

Magnificent! The Scottish Chiefs is my favorite I think. OK stop teasing BZ. Post the New Story!

Nice! A little different from his normal style, like he's trying to give the impression of Attic vase painting, particularly with Circe and her drapery.

The Centipede one is pretty cool though. $400 seems like a lot, but it is for two volumes, so that's really about right, considering how expensive it is to put these lind of books together. Sooner or later though Subterranean or sombody else will do a nice set with the corrected texts. I'll save my money for that.

It's definately more "swashbuckly" that's for sure. I made this point in the pulp thread I think, that even in REH's Mythos stories, you'll find his protagonists tend to fight back against whatever eldritch horrors they encounter, rather than just curling up into a gibbering fetal position and going insane. "The Black Stone" is great example of that. He was always more comfortable with action-oriented characters regardless of genre - that was his strong suit. A series of HPL illustrated limited editions (with the Joshi-edited texts) would be amazing. Do you have any more info on the volume you mentioned?

I really love Gianni's art. There'a a lot of Wyeth in his his paintings. His pen and ink is superb as well. In addition to the SK volume, he also did the illustrations for the Bran Mak Morn one and the second of the three Conan volumes. Wandering Star had some very ambitious plans - they wanted to publish the complete works of REH, with the purest texts, in these deluxe limited editons. Unfortunately, they ran out of steam (and money) and had to give it up after a handful of volumes. The biggest complaint was that they had only done two of the three Conan volumes and so once again it looked like we would never get all the Conan stories in a nice hb set (Donald Grant's 1970's series was also left unfinished). Finally last year they completed the third Conan, much to everyone's relief, though it took some financial backing from a UK bookseller. Subterranean Press has taken over and are continuing the series of illustrated limited editons and what they aren't publishing, the REH Foundation will. Annihilus, the Del Rey tpbs that I linked you to earlier are the mass market version of these limited editions. The whole story behind the publication of these volumes is an interesting saga in it's own right. Here a piece I did about it when Conan vol. 3 finally came out: A Book Too Far: The Savage Tale of the Wandering Star Limited Editions

Yeah, me too. When he told me he would add a sketch, I thought it would be a little remarque but he did this full-pager. He's a really cool guy - super nice. (thumbs u

That's actually the cover for the audio CD that came with the book. I have all the Wandering Star REH books and I have to say if you are fan of beautiful illustrated editions you should really check these out. They are absolutely gorgeous volumes. The Solomon Kane volume was the first one issued and was chock full of extras like prints of the Gianni plates and the CD. I was fortunate enough to purchase my copy from Gary himself and he hooked me up with a sketch.

Wow!!! Congrats Lauren!!!

Nice!

I had no idea he did covers for WT. Here's my favorite Doolin cover:

Congrats Bill! That's a great book and Larson to boot.

Great cover! Quuite surprised it is that early! Oops, I made a typo...it's from 1935, not 1934. Even so - the style could easily be from several decades later! On Walter M Miller... Pat, are we going to talk great science fiction? ACFL was one of the seminal reading experiences of my youth. It's arguably the greatest post-apocalyptic novel, along with Earth Abides and City but Pat will know whether or not it was the first. (These are not my copies) Cool books! I would say the earliest post-apocalyptic novel that I know of would be Mary Shelly's The Last Man (1826).

Very cool! That will look awesome framed! Can you find a frame that size? Way Cool!!! It's worth a custom frame. That's really cool!