The Ship of Ishtar.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #10391
326pp. Brick red cloth with black titles on cover and spine. One of a series of variant bindings. "In The Ship of Ishtar, (Merritt's) best novel, a man travels into a magical world and falls in love with the beautiful female captain of the ship of Ishtar; the highly coloured descriptive passages of this novel still have a strong effect on readers." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, eds. Clute and Nicholls, 1999, p. 800. Slight lean to spine, name on front free endpaper and a touch of wear to spine ends and tips. A solid, very good copy. In Bleiler, 1978, p. 138. A rather appealing copy. ; Octavo.
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