Merritt, Abraham — The Ship of Ishtar
New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. Small stain to front panel, some mild discoloration to spine panel, name in pencil on content page. A very good copy. In Bleiler, 1978, p. 138. ; Octavo. .