Red Nails: Conan (The Authorized Edition)

Howard, Robert E., edited by Karl Edward Wagner

ISBN 10: 0399123334 / ISBN 13: 9780399123337

Published by Berkley Publishing; (1979), 1977

About this Item

First edition, very good+ in a very good dust jacket. A bit of spotting to the page edges; light soiling to half title page. The jacket is rubbed on the rear panel, and the spine ends are a little worn. Jacket illustration of Conan by Ken Kelly. $9.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. 0.

Seller Inventory # 023713

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Nails: Conan (The Authorized Edition)
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing; (1979)
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399123334
• ISBN 13: 9780399123337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Excerpt: ... city." "Then your ancestors didn't build Xuchotl?" asked Valeria. "It was ancient when they first came into the land. How long it had stood here, not even its degenerate inhabitants knew." "Your people came from Lake Zuad?" questioned Conan. "Aye. More than half a century ago a tribe of the Tlazitlans rebelled against the Stygian king, and, being defeated in battle, fled southward. For many weeks they wandered over grasslands, desert and hills, and at last they came into the great forest, a thousand fighting-men with their women and children. "It was in the forest that the dragons fell upon them, and tore many to pieces; so the people fled in a frenzy of fear before them, and at last came into the plain and saw the city of Xuchotl in the midst of it. "They camped before the city, not daring to leave the plain, for the night was made hideous with the noise of the battling monsters throughout the forest. They made war incessantly upon one another. Yet they came not into the plain. "The people of the city shut their gates and shot arrows at our people from the walls. The Tlazitlans were imprisoned on the plain, as if the ring of the forest had been a great wall; for to venture into the woods would have been madness. "That night there came secretly to their camp a slave from the city, one of their own blood, who with a band of exploring soldiers had wandered into the forest long before, when he was a young man. The dragons had devoured all his companions, but he had been taken into the city to dwell in servitude. His name was Tolkemec." A flame lighted the dark eyes at mention of the name, and some of the people muttered obscenely and spat. "He promised to open the gates to the warriors. He asked only that all captives taken be delivered into his hands. "At dawn he opened the gates. The warriors swarmed in and the halls of Xuchotl ran red. Only a few hundred folk dwelt there, decaying remnants of a once great race. Tolkemec said they came from the...

About the Author

Robert Ervin Howard (1906 - 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery sub-genre. --Wikipedia