THE TRITONIAN RING

Sphere books paperback, 1978. Cover artwork by Melvyn Grant.

Rear cover/synopsis.

ROGUE QUEEN

Dell paperback, 1952. Cover artwork by Ed Emshwiller.

CONAN THE SWORDSMAN

Sphere paperback, 1978. Cover painting by Melvyn Grant.

Synopsis: 

"From the wild and wintry borders of Asgard to exotic Iranistan, from the perilous Pictish Marches to the awesomely-guarded stronghold of the miser-wizard Siptah, Conan the incomparable cuts his savage swathe through a matchless world of swordplay and sorcery in his most thrilling adventures yet!" 

THE INCOMPLEAT ENCHANTER

Sphere paperback, 1979. Cover painting by Peter Jones.

"The Mathematics of Magic - it was the greatest discovery ever. Or so though Professor Harold Shea. With the proper equations he could instantly transport himself and his friend Reed Chalmers back - or sideways - in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient myth and legend. 

But slips in time were a hazard. And Shea's magic didn't always work quite as he expected. A dragon spell might yield a hundred dragons - or, even worse, one tenth of a dragon. And the various imaginary lands he travelled to held countless dangers that even Shea's equations couldn't predict..."

ACE DOUBLE: THE SEARCH FOR ZEI + THE HAND OF ZEI

Ace Double paperback, 1963. Cover by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh").

"Twenty-five degrees north of the equator on the planet Krishna lies the Banjao sea, the largest body of water on this planet. And in this sea is found the Sunqar, home of legend and mystery.

"Here under the scorching rays of the hot high sun, the beaked galleys of Dur and the tubby round ships of Jazmurian slowly rot in the unbreakable grip of a vast floating continent of sea vine. Even the violent storms of the Krishnan sub-tropics no more than ruffle the surface of the immense floating swamp. Nothing, once caught in this web of weed, can escape..."

Barely had Dick Barnevelt written these words as part of a publicity campaign for his boss, than he learned that he would shortly find himself isolated in the middle of this terrible place on a barbaric planet without the aid of scientific equipment, surrounded by deadly dangers, with an unfulfilled mission and the dire necessity of making an escape he had just declared impossible."

Ace Double paperback, 1963. Cover by Ed Emshwiller ("Emsh").