The Ship of Ishtar

by A. Merritt, Virgil Finlay

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Signed

Los Angeles & Toronto: Borden Publishing Company, 1949. 1949. Memorial edition. Virgil Finlay's personal copy with his bookplate on the front paste down; later a presentation copy signed by the illustrator on the front free end paper and inscribed, Gerry de la Ree, loyal courtier and Keeper of the Books of A. Merritt, The Lord of Fantasy. Bound in publisher's terracotta cloth lettered in gilt with blue topstain. Fine

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