Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

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The Ballantine Adult Fantasy series was a landmark line of fantasy paperbacks published in the late 1960s and early 1970s that reintroduced classic and overlooked works of fantasy literature to a modern audience.

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instanceOf fantasy book series
paperback book line
aimedAt adult readers
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtist Bob Pepper NERFINISHED
Gervasio Gallardo NERFINISHED
Roger Dean NERFINISHED
curator Lin Carter NERFINISHED
editor Lin Carter NERFINISHED
endTime 1974
format mass-market paperback
genre fantasy literature
hasPart Lud-in-the-Mist NERFINISHED
The Broken Sword NERFINISHED
The Dragon Waiting NERFINISHED
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath NERFINISHED
The Dreaming Jewels NERFINISHED
The Dying Earth NERFINISHED
The Emperor of Dreams NERFINISHED
The Eyes of the Overworld NERFINISHED
The Face in the Frost NERFINISHED
The High Place NERFINISHED
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories NERFINISHED
The King of Elfland’s Daughter NERFINISHED
The King of Elfland’s Daughter and Other Stories NERFINISHED
The Last Unicorn NERFINISHED
The Night Land NERFINISHED
The Spawn of Cthulhu NERFINISHED
The Water of the Wondrous Isles NERFINISHED
The Well at the World’s End NERFINISHED
The Wood Beyond the World NERFINISHED
The Worlds of A. E. van Vogt NERFINISHED
The Worm Ouroboros NERFINISHED
The Young Magicians NERFINISHED
Zothique NERFINISHED
includedAuthor Clark Ashton Smith NERFINISHED
E. R. Eddison NERFINISHED
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (as Vangelis) NERFINISHED
Fritz Leiber NERFINISHED
H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED
Jack Vance NERFINISHED
James Branch Cabell NERFINISHED
Lord Dunsany NERFINISHED
William Morris NERFINISHED
influenced later fantasy reprint lines
modern fantasy canon formation
language English
notableFor introducing overlooked fantasy authors to modern readers
reissuing classic fantasy works
numberOfVolumes about 65
predecessor Ballantine’s earlier Tolkien paperbacks
publisher Ballantine Books NERFINISHED
publisherImprintOf Random House NERFINISHED
startTime 1969
timePeriod early 1970s
late 1960s

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