Brand/Publisher: Zebra Books, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp.

Title: Swords Against Darkness (Volume One).

Authors/Editor: Edited and introduced by Andrew J. Offutt, featuring heroic fantasy fiction by Robert E. Howard, Manly Wade Wellman, Poul Anderson, and other contributors.

Format: Vintage English-language mass market paperback with painted fantasy cover art depicting a sword-wielding warrior in a dark, otherworldly landscape.

Genre/Topic: Heroic fantasy; sword and sorcery; adventure anthology collecting short stories and novelettes in the tradition of Robert E. Howard.

Features: First volume in the Swords Against Darkness series, edited with a foreword by Andrew J. Offutt and a multi-author table of contents of fantasy tales.

Type: Short story and novelette anthology; narrative type: fiction; intended audience: adult readers who enjoy classic sword-and-sorcery and heroic fantasy.

Original language: English; country of origin: printed in the United States of America; era: 1980s vintage mass market fantasy publishing.

Publication details: Copyright 1977 by Andrew J. Offutt; third printing April 1980; published in New York by Kensington Publishing Corp. under the Zebra Books imprint.

Identifiers: Copyright and barcode pages list ISBN 0-8217-2972-1 and ISBN 9780821729721.

Keywords: Swords Against Darkness Andrew J. Offutt Robert E. Howard Zebra Books heroic fantasy sword and sorcery vintage 1980 mass market paperback anthology.