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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: enchanters
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Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 13:06:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 13:06:15 1983
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   Well, there are about 30 articles in sf-lovers for me to read yet, so
I don't know if this point has already been cleared up; however, the
books in question happened to be sitting on my desk here at work,
so I couldn't resist...
   >The Wall of Serpents<, by L.Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt, is >not<
included in >The Compleat Enchanter<. It was published separately.
A fairly compleat publishing history of the works in question follows:

The Compleat Enchanter: Doubleday Book Club edition, published 1975,
   containing...Book I: The Roaring Trumpet: first published in the May, 1940
   issue of Street and Smith's "Unknown" magazine...
   ...Book II: The Mathematics of Magic: first published in "Unknown", 
   August 1940...
   ...Book III: The Castle of Iron: from "Unknown", April 1941...
   ...an afterword entitled "Fletcher and I", copyright 1975 by deCamp.

The Incomplete Enchanter: copyright 1941 by Henry Holt and Company. This
   volume contained "The Roaring Trumpet" and "The Mathematics of Magic".

The Wall of Serpents: my edition was printed by Dell books, in November 1979.
   It contains the novellae "The Wall of Serpents", based on the Finnish
   >Kalevala<, and "The Green Magician", based on Irish mythology.
   The book was first copyright in 1960, and the individual novellae
   were copyright 1953 by Future Publications, and 1954 by Galaxy
   Publishing Corp, the second obviously for Galaxy magazine
   (or possibly Worlds of If).

   This is a very pleasant series of books to read, dealing with fantasy
in a logical, consistent and light-hearted way, very much characteristic
of the stories that appeared in "Unknown", 'way back when.

-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll