Sandalwood and Jade: Poems of the Exotic and the Strange is a poetry collection written and illustrated by Lin Carter.

Carter lists his inspirations as Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Chu-I, Hafiz, Omar Khayyam, Chaures, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, and Don Blanding.

[2] The collection consists of thirty poems, illustrated and with a foreword by the author.

"Walker on the Wind" was the winner of the '48 Elizabeth Buchtenkirk Award.

"Nightwind" and "The Golden City" were winners of 1948 St. Petersburg Poetry League Awards.