Deities and Dolphins: The Story of the Nabataeans
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1965).
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 650pp. Over 400 illustrations. About fine in near very good dustwrapper with some internal repairs. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. With ownership signature "Bernarda B. Shahn" on front fly, and her name stamp at the bottom page edge. The many illustrations of the local art was almost certainly an influence on her work on the Gilgamesh story.
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