Hehe, thanks, man, and my apologies - didn't want to seem like I was whipersnapping or whatever; it's just that we need to expand the corpus of our research if we are to understand the setting in all it's depth.
However, the question would likely be, which of this is Arnesonian, and which of this was added by the staff at TSR?
As to Leiber, I've always evaded him; his prose is little above the usual dime novel or bluebook, and his ideas are fairly unoriginal if one knows later fantasy (at least from what I recall).
His body of work is extensive, though. For our BM-related research, I would recommend we focus on the first eight (!) anthologies of F&GM, published until 1968.
Swords and Deviltry (1970). Collection of 3 short stories. Swords Against Death (1970). Collection of 10 short stories. Swords in the Mist (1968). Collection of 6 short stories. Swords Against Wizardry (1968). Collection of 4 short stories. The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) (expanded from "Scylla's Daughter" in Fantastic, 1963)
The "Sea King" story is contained in "Swords in the Mists", IIRC.
As to how influencial he might have been, just check this cover:
Yepp, that could be a huge find.
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