About this title: Explorer John Kenton returns from a lifetime of wanderings and the wreckage of World War I to discover a mysterious block of Babylonian basalt containing a crystal model of an ancient ship - the Ship of Ishtar! The sultry magic of the fabled ship draws Kenton into its dreamworld, where a strange crew plucked from the ages sails in a lushly ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon, NY
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. Heavy rubbing to cover edges, front illustration still clear. The goddess of love and beauty was adrift on an enchanted ocean in a magic world. The myriad forces of satanic evil plagued the vessel of the red-haired passionate goddess. Only one man, John Kenton, the American adventurer, could save Ishtar's priestess from the black magic which divides her world from ours.. read more
Binding: Mass market pb
Publisher: Avon Book, New York
Date Published: August 1966
Description: Doug Rosa. Good. No dust jacket, as issued. spine crease and wear, a piece of tape with an "F" on it at bottom of spine, edge wear and creases, long crease on back cover near spine, pages in great shape. Unknown printing. Illustrated by Doug Rosa. 207 p. ; read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good- No Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 207pp. Wraps are moderately rubbed with light wear along edges, a reader's crease along front spinal edge. Text is clean and tight. The American adventurer was pitched out of his own time and into a weird world of incredible and enticing marvels. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon, New York
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. Some wear to the covers. Pages toned with age. Clean text. Avon T-152. Later reprint from sometime in the late fifties. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good. This is a very nice 3rd printing 1973 paperback copy. No names, no marks, no stickers. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. S229. Moderate wear and creasing; sound book; pages tanned at edges. "The American adventurer was pitched out of his own time and into a weird world of incredible and enticing marvels. " Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy Inventory No: 054198. read more
Edition: 7th printing
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
ISBN-13:9780380411290ISBN:0380411296
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (111407) Mass Market Paperback is in Very Good+/Fine condition with light wear top spine edge, light crease in spine, very light overall wear. 220 p.; 18 cm. Avon; ppbk read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good with no dust jacket. 16mo-6" to 7" tall; 207 pages; PB lightly rubbed at edges, creased at hinge. Text clean and tight. Bagged for protection. Cover art by Douglas Rosa. Avon book #S229. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Rosa. Doug. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (040906) Mass market paperback is in VG+ condition with light crease at spine edge, light wear at spine corners, shadow crease upper right corner, very light overall wear. 220 p.; 18 cm. Avon; S229 Avon Books #S229 read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Pub. Co., New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Rosa, Doug. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. (040809) Mass Market Paperback is in Fine condition with extremely light overall wear. 220 p.; 17 cm. Avon; T-152.. read more
Description: Paperback. Good Plus. Avon 324. The front cover is wrinkled The back cover is creased with rubbing. The spine is creased with laminate lifting and a paper break accross. The pages are browned. read more
Edition: 4th printing
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Rosa, Douglas. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (042707) Mass market paperback is in VG+/Fine condition with very light overall wear. 207 p.; 18 cm. Avon; S229. An Avon book.. Cover illustration by Doug Rosa. Fourth Avon printing. read more
"Merritt's 1924 fantasy novel often achieves a vivid, heady opulence despite its slight, almost non-existent structural and philosophical underpinnings. A mysterious block of Babylonian stone arrives in protagonist John Kenton's study and soon crumbles to reveal a tiny model of a fantastic ship which has the power to mystically transport Kenton to the ship's full-size counterpart, where a bizarre crew sails strange seas under compulsion of gods of the Babylonian pantheon. One half of the ship is claimed by love goddess Ishtar and her beautiful priestess Sharane, the other by underworld god Nergal and his evil priest. Kenton's arrival naturally upsets the divinely decreed balance. Merritt achieves a strange dreamy tone here as in much of his work. Much of the action takes place on the ship, afloat on misty seas where the passage of time adheres to no fixed rule. Archaic-sounding constructions add interest to his sometimes unfocused prose. Merritt's interesting use of characters from far-flung time periods- a Persian and a Viking are among the 20th-century Kenton's eventual allies- is only very lightly fleshed out with historical or mythological background. Though it may put off modern fantasy readers accustomed to laboriously detailed world-building backdrops, it is this dashed-off, light quality which forms much of the charm of Merritt's style. Depth of psychological characterization is not to be expected, but the reader is nonetheless rewarded with exotic settings, sights and sounds, as well as a few vivid set pieces and more evocative scenes toward the end of the book. The final naval battle in a half-submerged city of colossal monuments is the most powerful of these. The strength of visions like this and others scattered through novels such as The Face In The Abyss and Dwellers In The Mirage grant Merritt his role as an important pulp fantasist whose work needs to be considered in any study of weird literature."
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