New R E. Howard book

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The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume One: Crimson Shadows
By Robert E. Howard
(preorder—to be published in Mid-2009)
Illustrated by Jim and Ruth Keegan
Limited: $150
Deluxe Limited: $400
The UK based small press Wandering Star issued glorious editions of Robert E. Howard’s work, including The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, The Ultimate Triumph, as well as two volumes of Howard’s Conan tales.
Subterranean Press is proud to continue this series of limited editions, beginning with Kull: Exile of Atlantis, exquisitely illustrated with color plates and black and white illustrations illuminating the text. We now continue with our second offering, Crimson Shadows, The Best of Robert E. Howard, volume one. We plan to match or better the quality of materials used in the Wandering Star editions, and will be doing a number of other books in the series.
Important Note for Collectors: If you own the Wandering Star editions of The Robert E. Howard Library of Classics, you may continue to receive the same number copy of our continuation of the series. When checking out, mention your copy number in the comments section. Please order ASAP to ensure you get the same number.
Important note to PayPal users: our online store does not forward comments when customers pay via that route, so if you use PayPal, you’ll need to send a separate email to subpress@gmail.com specifying which number you need.
Among the great pulp writers whose work continues to enthrall new generations of readers -- Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler--few were as versatile as Robert E. Howard. Best known as the creator of Conan, Howard also wrote not only of other memorable fantasy characters, such as Puritan swordsman Solomon Kane and Pictish king Bran Mak Morn, but hundreds of stories of boxing, detection, westerns, horror, "weird menace," desert adventure, lost race, historicals, "spicies", even "true confessions."
To all of them he brought his gift for exciting, fast-paced action and a poetic economy of language. The two volumes in The Best of Robert E. Howard bring together the most outstanding of his tales, enabling both long-time fans and new readers alike to sample the varied repertoire of "the greatest pulp writer in the whole wide world."
Limited: 750 numbered copies, signed by the artists
Lettered: 50 numbered leatherbound copies, signed by the artists
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction
-- The Shadow Kingdom
-- The Ghost Kings
-- The Curse of the Golden Shell
-- Red Shadows
-- The One Black Stain
-- The Dark Man
-- The Marching Song of Connacht
-- Kings of the Night
-- Recompense
-- The Black Stone
-- The Song of a Mad Minstrel
-- The Fightin’est Pair
-- The Grey God Passes
-- The Song of the Last Briton
-- Worms of the Earth
-- An Echo from The Iron Harp
-- Lord of the Dead
-- Untitled
-- "For the Love of Barbara Allen"
-- The Tide
-- The Valley of the Worm
-- The Dust Dance: Selections, Version II
-- The People of the Black Circle
-- Beyond the Black River
-- A Word from the Outer Dark
-- Hawk of the Hills
-- Sharp’s Gun Serenade
-- Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die
Appendices:
-- Robert E. Howard: Twentieth-Century Mythmaker
-- A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard
-- Notes on the Original Howard Texts
 

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No they just happen to be publishing books by authors I collect and very much enjoy.:)
 
Im wondering if they will realese The Savage Tales of Soloman Kane.

I could really use someone else than Del Rey for that book. Wandering Star is out of print and 10 times more the prize now.
 
Meh.....I'm happy with my Del Rey editions. Still if you don't have something of that ilk well worth the investment I say.

Such a fussy one that Conn...;)
 
Meh.....I'm happy with my Del Rey editions. Still if you don't have something of that ilk well worth the investment I say.

Such a fussy one that Conn...;)

Im happy with my Horror collection from Del Rey, it doesnt have too much illustrations. It was surprisingly well balanced and not fully illustrated.

Im worried about what Solomon Kane collection is like. Dont you have it? Is it a few like Horror colleciton or too much like Bran Mak Morn collection ?

There is nothing fussy about wanting to read the words of REH and not see too many pictures. If i want art i will go read my Graphic Novels,comics,manga... ;)
 
I personally like my Del Rey Solomon Kane very much. It's well done I feel and a joy to read.

Can you check in the page after the contents table how many pages there is with illustrations ?

Thats the only thing that i wonder that i check out before getting Del Rey REH books.

In amazon you can check contents table but not the other page.
 
I have sci/fi book club editions of the Solomn Kane books. I got them fairly recently, i don't know if they're still offered though. They offered the Conan Collection and the Bran Mac Morn stories also. Book club editions but pretty sturdy.
 
Connavar ... I will when I get home and tell you.
Apologies to the cat but it only quotes 4 plates but there's heaps more than that in terms of pen illustrations, so I guess your point is well made. Basically there's illustrations on every page with 7 full page illustrations.
 

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