Varaday, Desmond.

DOVE OF ISHTAR.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1967.

First Edition. Hardcover. Varaday, Desmond. DOVE OF ISHTAR: The Story of Semiramis. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1967. Publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt at the spine. 8vo., 277pp. A fine copy in a very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of very tiny chips at the spine crown. A very uncommon title. "Semiramis was a famous Assyrian Princess, who reigned over Babylon for forty-two years and laid the foundation in 800 BC for Assyria's later ascendancy as a world power". Her legends were fabulous.

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