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[cimmerianbloke]

Greetings You Swine Brothers...
I need any foreign editions to complete my collection, anything that wouldn't be US, French or Spanish. I pay good price, and the shipping fees. Comics and REH Conan only. Flood me with exotic stuff... Possibility of exchange as well. Email ewery2@yahoo.fr.

[Ironhand]

That's Dog Brothers.

[SonOfCimmeria]

Greetings You Swine Brothers...

The other white meat!

[Adam]

As for English, Americans, Canadians, etc. - anybody from English speaking world for whom English is their mother tongue obtaining REH books may be easy.

However, problems start to arise when English is not your mother tongue

I'd like to ask those for whom English is not their mother tongues what REH's short stories/novels/books, etc. have already been published in your countries, what do you think about the translations, etc.?

And last but not least do you read REH books in your native languages or in English?

I read some REH short stories in English but the main bulk of them was read by me in Polish and I don't regret it.

How about German, French, Spanish, etc, etc translations of REH's works in your countries? (ie: non English speaking countries)

PS. REH's books were published in Poland in 80s and early 90s - now they are hard to obtain (fortunately I've got them all ).

[korak]

I have noticed that the Del Rey Conan trilogy is available in Spanish in the USA... I have considered buying them to help me learn a second language better. In the Western Hemisphere, you can get by, going all the way from the Arctic circle down to the tip of South America, basically on just two languages, English and Spanish. which is amazing compared to the eastern hemisphere. True, they speak Portuguese in Brazil, and a little French here and there along the way, but Portuguese has so many cognates with Spanish that it is almost a variant of the same language, and you can easily avoid passing through French or other language lands, which are quite limited.

[terryallenuk]

Pretty sure the Gollancz books have been translated into a number of languages.

Terry

[Adam]

I have noticed that the Del Rey Conan trilogy is available in Spanish in the USA... I have considered buying them to help me learn a second language better. In the Western Hemisphere, you can get by, going all the way from the Arctic circle down to the tip of South America, basically on just two languages, English and Spanish. which is amazing compared to the eastern hemisphere.

Yes, you are right, but the western hemisphere was conquered by either Spanish/Portugese-speaking conquerors (South and Latin America) or English (and French in Quebec) speaking conquerors (North America) - natives were either wiped out or subjugated and turned into slaves - whereas in the eastern hemisphere no such absolute conquers took place. And that's why Europe is so diverse and beautiful in its diversity

Besides, I love reading in Polish - my motherlanguage - REH books sound and look beautifully in Polish

[Majere]

I have noticed that the Del Rey Conan trilogy is available in Spanish in the USA... I have considered buying them to help me learn a second language better. In the Western Hemisphere, you can get by, going all the way from the Arctic circle down to the tip of South America, basically on just two languages, English and Spanish. which is amazing compared to the eastern hemisphere.

Yes, you are right, but the western hemisphere was conquered by either Spanish/Portugese-speaking conquerors (South and Latin America) or English (and French in Quebec) speaking conquerors (North America) - natives were either wiped out or subjugated and turned into slaves - whereas in the eastern hemisphere no such absolute conquers took place. And that's why Europe is so diverse and beautiful in its diversity

Besides, I love reading in Polish - my motherlanguage - REH books sound and look beautifully in Polish

Actually, every corner of the globe has seen it's fair share of conquerors. Alexander, Genghis Kahn, and Napolean all cut a pretty broad swath across Europe and Asia. But that's neither here not there, I guess.

Peace,
-M-

[Ant]

This site goes some way towards answering the question "what REH's short stories/novels/books, etc. have already been published in your countries?" - at least for Conan: http://www.webpark.s...an/language.htm

I know that Marvel's Conan has been published in Czech: one of my sons brought me back a collection from Prague. "Vě? Slona!" is the only one I've read even some of the way through - "The Tower of the Elephant".

By the way, regarding the Paradox posting a few months ago, it seems that it may be harder to differentiate Red Sonya from Red Sonja in non-English languages. In Czech, Red Sonja becomes Rud? Soňa ... which I imagine is also how Red Sonya would be written as they're phonetically very similar.

Cheers,
Ant

[Adam]

In Polish "Red Sonya" is "Czerwona Sonya".

Marvel comics were also published in Poland shortly after 1989

[godzilladude]

Hey,
A publisher in Spain, Matau Editor, brought out three hardback volumes of REH material in the late 1940s. They are, respectively, the 3rd, 4th and 5th hardback books of REH material ever printed, and the first publications of REH in Spanish, as far as I can tell. Well, as the publisher is in Barcelona, they might be in Catalan, not Spanish. I'd guess the contents came from Arkham House's Skull-Face and Others, as it was published in 1946.

They are:

La Cuidad Muerta
Contains La Cuidad Muerta (The Fire of Asshurbanipal); La Tumba India (The Horror from the Mound); El Valle del Gusano (The Valley of the Worm); La Cuidadela Escarlata (The Scarlet Citadel); Rufianes en la Casa (Rogues in the House)
1st Edition, Mateu, Editor, HB, 1947
Cover art by A. Lopezolonso; translated by Juan G. de Lauces; brown-red binding, gilt lettering

El Templo De Yun-Shatu
Contains El Templo de Yun-Shatu (Skull-Face); El Canaan Negro (Black Canaan)
1st Edition, Mateu, Editor, HB, 1948
Cover art by. A. Lopezolonso; translated by Casa de Vall; published in Barcelona

Noches En Zamboula
Contents unknown, though of couse it likely contains at least Shadows in Zamboula
1st Edition, Mateu, HB, 1949

I have not been able to track down any of these. If any of our vast assemblage of Spanish fans can turn up a copy or two, I certainly be interested in giving them a good home

Little item for the day.

Edited by godzilladude, 14 February 2008 - 10:04 PM.

[deuce]

Hey Paul! Wild news, that. "Cimmerianbloke" appears to be our resident expert on Howardiana en Espanol. BTW, good to see you're not "wasting" ALL of your "free time".

[cimmerianbloke]

Man, you beat me here. Those are indeed spanish editions in spanish (I am still waiting for something translated in Catalan,as I am a die-hard catalanista myself). I'll try to get more info about those books, might buy them if they're nice. I was home last week to see the kids and took advantage to scan some other foreign covers, keep an eye in the illustrated Conan section.

[deuce]

Updates for 29 July 2012
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North-West (Severo-Zapad)
Thanks to Bingam Vici and Dmitriy for translating and creating this page.

Warrior Snow (Voin snegov)
http://howardworks.c...North-West.html

This is the final entry in the 15-book North-West REH series.
http://howardworks.com/North-West.html

Elena and Dmitriy will be working on the remaining five REH Russian series as time permits.
2 books - Publishers Azbuka mini-series
4 books - Publishers Eridan
8 books - Publishers North-west
12 books - Publishers Azbuka
4 books - Publishers Exmo & Domino
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Bill Thom
Pulp Coming Attractions
http://www.pulpcomingattractions.com/
Pulp Series Character Reprint Index
http://www.pulpcomin...ndex/index.html
The Works of Robert E. Howard
http://howardworks.com/

Many thanks to Elena and Dmitriy!

Here's a link to the "Polish Conan Novels" thread:

http://www.conan.com...c=278&hl=polish

[godzilladude]

I lost count of how many books Glenn has in non-English. I'd guess more than a thousand. Box after box after box after box . . . He went to a lot of trouble to try to get translated things like title and publisher and contents. When I was in law school, I helped him out with some less-common language, getting a UT prof to assist.

Some of the covers for the Conan stuff is just wild. I really need to go pull some of those back out and shoot the covers.