Author: KHAYYAM, OMAR; EDWARD FITZGERALD (TRANS)
Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: First and Last Versions
Description: Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1938. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Hamzeh Abd Ullah Kar. Publisher's full black leatherette, gilt lettering on red panel and additional decoration on spine, gilt lettering and mosque medallion in gilt and red on cover, burgundy endpapers, t.e.g. (red), fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with full-page, full-color, tipped-in plates by Hamzeh Abd Ullah Kar. This edition includes Fitzgerald's handwritten changes in the 4th edition as an addendum to the end of the work, as well as the full text of his original translation.. Cover and spine gilt faded; very small and elegant former owner's signature on ffep, and stamp on the fep, otherwise unmarked, some smudges on a couple of the tipped-in plates, some plates wrinkled at the corners, else fine. VERY GOOD. Color Illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (xx), (113) pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Literature; Poetry; Rubaiyats; Illustrated Books; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Illustrated Books Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: First and Last Versions
Description: Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1938. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Hamzeh Abd Ullah Kar. Publisher's full black leatherette, gilt lettering on red panel and additional decoration on spine, gilt lettering and mosque medallion in gilt and red on cover, burgundy endpapers, t.e.g. (red), fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with full-page, full-color, tipped-in plates by Hamzeh Abd Ullah Kar. This edition includes Fitzgerald's handwritten changes in the 4th edition as an addendum to the end of the work, as well as the full text of his original translation.. Cover and spine gilt faded; very small and elegant former owner's signature on ffep, and stamp on the fep, otherwise unmarked, some smudges on a couple of the tipped-in plates, some plates wrinkled at the corners, else fine. VERY GOOD. Color Illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (xx), (113) pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Literature; Poetry; Rubaiyats; Illustrated Books; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Illustrated Books Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 60.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 1476
- Book number: 1476
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