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Title: Ship of Ishtar
Date of first publication: 1924
Author: Abraham Grace Merritt
Date first posted: June 21, 2018
Date last updated: June 21, 2018
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A. MERRITT
THE
SHIP OF
ISHTAR

[Illustration: AN AVON BOOK]

AVON BOOKS
A division of
The Hearst Corporation
959 Eighth Avenue
New York, New York 10019

Copyright 1924, 1952 by Eleanor H. Merritt.
Published by arrangement with Mrs. A. Merritt.
All rights reserved.

First Avon Printing, November, 1944
Fourth Avon Printing, August, 1966

Cover illustration by Doug Rosa

Printed in the U.S.A.

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