Dael Forest - Barba the Slaver (Ballantine edition)

First published in the U.K by New English Library in 1975. This U.S. edition published by Ballantine (ISBN: 0345256700) in August 1978. Dael Forest was a pseudonym of Stephen D. Frances, known primarily as the creator of Hank Janson, though many websites mistakenly credit Kenneth Bulmer as the author. Cover art by Boris Vallejo.