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Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. A few light spots to covers; spine a tad sunned. Close to Fine in a Fine slipcase. Irving Amen. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black-and-white woodcuts and linocuts reproduced from the work of Irving Amen. Copy #579 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.