#L. Sprague de Camp

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Boris Vallejo, cover illustration for Conan the Freebooter, by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp (Ace Books, 1977).

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Ponytail by Frank Frazetta. Used as cover for The Tritonian Ring by L. Sprague De Camp, 1970.

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Edd Cartier “Lest Darkness Fall” by L. Sprague de Camp, Cover for Street and Smith’s Unknown (December 1939)

Source, source

[asfaltics]

putterings, 324, 323, 319b

  clay and tools and useless words doing nothing — For although he was one of those characters whom one might speak of having “missed his calling,” he was certainly faithful to his mistake. pois nāo?

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L. Sprague de Camp's personal copy of Bram Stoker's DRACULA. From my personal collection - added while working at a book store that acquired a large number of books from de Camp's library after his passing.

Inscription reads "December 25, 1937 First Anniversary"

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Cover by Edd Cartier

[bookmaven]

THE CASTLE OF IRON by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. (New York: Gnome Press, 1950). [Harold Shea] Dust jacket illustration by Hannes Bok.

Originally published as a 35,000 word novella in Unknown, this story is set in a parallel universe where magic works. It is the third story (and second volume) in the Harold Shea series.

Unknown, April 1941. Edited by John W. Campbell.

THE CASTLE OF IRON by Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

“They” by Robert A. Heinlein. Illustrated by Charles Schneeman

“Over the River” by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

“The Haunt” by Theodore Sturgeon. Illustrated by R. Isip

“A Length of Rope” by Chester S. Geier. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

“The Forbidden Trail” by Jane Rice. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

THE CASTLE OF IRON (New York: Pyramid, 1962) Cover by Ed Emshwiller // THE COMPLETE ENCHANTER (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1975) Cover by D.K. Stone.

THE COMPLEAT ENCHANTER (New York: del Rey, 1976) Cover by the Hildebrandt Brothers.// THE CASTLE OF IRON (London: Sphere, 1979) Cover by Peter Jones.

THE COMPLETE COMPLEAT ENCHANTER (New York: Baen, 1989) Cover by Thomas Kidd // THE COMPLEAT ENCHANTER (London: Gollancz, 2000 ) Cover by Edd Cartier.

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https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v010n03_1956-03_PDF/page/n107/mode/2up

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Recién pasó el cumpleaños de #hplovecraft, y el mejor modo que se me ocurrió para recordar lo bueno del escritor rodislandés fue leer algunos de sus cuentos y repasar algunos episodios de su vida que arrojan luz sobre las sombras que lo caracterizaron, no para justificarlas, jamás, sino para entender -en la medida de lo posible- su proceso creativo o tratar de contextualizar su evolución como escritor.

Revisé la biografía hecha por L. Sprague de Camp.

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pois nāo?

        “Then how about the machine-shop? I couldn’t do any harm there.”       Zuloaga wagged a forefinger. “Oh, you Americanos do Norte all want to get your hands greasy as soon as you come aboard. It must give you a feeling of virility, pois nāo? But come, you shall see our little shop.”       In the shop Chapman cultivated the acquaintance of Chief Machinist Gustafson. Zuloaga left them puttering among the tools. When Chapman departed a quarter-hour later, he took with him a lump of beeswax and a length of wire which he had slipped into his pockets unseen...

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ex A.D. 2104-2128 “Summer Wear,” in L. Sprague de Camp. The Continent Makers, and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953; Signet Science Fiction Q4825, 1971) : 36 borrowable at archive.org : link

from back cover — “By the twenty-first century, the great power struggle on Earth has been resolved in the only possible way. The United States, Russia, and China all have fallen by the wayside, and Brazil has assumed her rightful place as world leader. Thus it is naturally Brazil that conducts the first interstellar explorations, and creates the great space transport system, the Viagens Interplanetarias, to extend her galactic conquests and hold her vast and growing empire together...”

L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000) wikipedia : link

“The Viagens Interplanetarias series is a sequence of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the late 1940s... Set in the future in the 21st and 22nd centuries, the series is named for the quasi-public Terran agency portrayed as monopolizing interstellar travel, the Brazilian-dominated Viagens Interplanetarias (‘Interplanetary Voyages’ or ‘Interplanetary Tours’ in Portuguese).” wikipedia : link

“Summer Wear” wikipedia : link (includes plot summary)  

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https://www.etsy.com/.../worlds-unknown-vol-1-2-4-and-6... Lower VF lots of Worlds Unknown 2, 4, and 6, available through the link for $30.00

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Conan vs all the damn vampires -- the ancient Brylukas (Earl Norem cover art for Savage Sword of Conan 38, March 1979, adapting the L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E Howard story "The Road of the Eagles," aka "Conan, Man of Destiny")

[geekynerfherder]

'Pony Tail' by Frank Frazetta.

Cover art for the 1968 edition of the novel 'The Tritonian Ring', written by L Sprague de Camp.

[kekwcomics]

FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION Vol. 13 #4 (Fantasy House, 1957)

Art: "EMSH" (?)

Edit: thanks to @jamie-b-good who reckons EMSH is likely to be Ed Emshwiller. Dang, that one was staring me in the face lol Thanks, Jamie!

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Pulp - Science Fiction Quarterly (Feb1955)

Art by Winston Marks

[head-vampire]

“Conan the Usurper” by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp (1967)

Cover art by Frank Frazetta