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Map of the Hyborian Age (Frontispiece)
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"Introduction" by L. Sprague
de Camp
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"The Devil in Iron"
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"The Flame Knife" (with L.
Sprague de Camp)
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Non-REH Content
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"Black Tears" by L. Sprague de Camp
and Lin Carter
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Edited by L. Sprague de Camp
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"Three Bladed Doom" features El
Borak and has both a long (42,000 words) and a short (24,000 words) version.
L. Sprague de Camp rewrote the long version into a Conan story titled
"The Flame Knife."
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Lancer went backrupt in 1973, but the Lancer
Conan titles returned to bookstores in 1977.
The publisher (Ace Books) claimed to be only distributing the series.
The books were purportedly published by Prestige Books.
However, there was no editorial address or contact information for Prestige
in the books.
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The Prestige books are known to
exist in at least two states.
Some have "DISTRIBUTED BY ACE BOOKS" on the cover, title and copyright
pages.
Prestige Books is listed as the publisher only on the title page.
Some have "ACE" on the cover and are stamped with "Prestige" on
the copyright page.
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The Conan series continued up to the
late 1980's and is the basis for numerous licensed as well as bootleg non-English
editions. The Conan series is by far the most reproduced REH series in the
world. It is quite possible that over one million copies of this book are
in print.
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