Lin Carter - Dragons, Elves and Heroes. 1969

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Record Number: 29200

Dragons, Elves and Heroes
edited by Lin Carter
First Edition 1969
Ballantine Books
New York
Publisher code: 01731
Paperback
Cover illustration by Sheryl Slavitt
viii+280 pages
Price: $0.95

Notes
Dragons, Elves and Heroes, an anthology of fantasy short fiction and poetry edited by Lin Carter.

Over the Hills and Far Away – a foreword by Lin Carter
The Ogre – by unknown author
The High History of the Sword Gram – by unknown author
Manawyddan Son of the Boundless – by Kenneth Morris
Puck's Song – a poem by Rudyard Kipling
Barrow-Wight – by Sabine Baring-Gould
Fingal at the Siege of Carric-Thura – a poem by James Macpherson
The Sword of Avalon – by Sir Thomas Malory
Tom O'Bedlam's Song – a poem by unknown author
The Last Giant of the Elder Age – by unknown author
The Lost Words of Power – a poem by unknown author
Wonderful Things Beyond Cathay by unknown author
Prospero Evokes the Air Spirits – a poem by William Shakespeare
The Lords of Faerie – by Edmund Spenser
Tales of the Wisdom of the Ancients – by unknown author
The Magical Palace of Darkness – by Francisco de Moraes
Rustum Against the City of Demons – by Firdausi
Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower Came – a poem by Robert Browning
The Princess of Babylon – by Voltaire
The Horns of Elfland – a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1971 Ballantine UK paperback edition, publisher code 01731. Cover illustration by Sheryl Slavitt.

Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
A glowing anthology of gems from the ancient writers, including excerpts from:

THE VOLSUNGA SAGA
BEOWULF
THE MABINOGION
THE SHAH-NAMAH
THE KALEVALA
and many, many more.

The companion volume to THE YOUNG MAGICIANS.
Edited and with introduction and notes by Lin Carter.

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