Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth; Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer.
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1983. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Large octavo. xx + 228pp. Gold cloth spine with black lettering to spine, matching gold papered boards, notes, bibliography, index, b&w frontispiece and illustrations compiled by Elizabeth Williams-Forte. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Wolkstein on the front blank. Praised by Mircea Eliade: "A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. A great masterpiece of universal literature." Stated first edition, with complete number row - thus first printing. Just a hint of shelf wear, top edge darkened else a lovely unmarked SIGNED near Fine copy in VG dust jacket (Dust jacket price clipped. Spine and adjacent half-inch of rear panel quite heavily faded. Now in mylar cover). Item #67933
ISBN: 006014713x
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