Author: KHAYYAM, OMAR; EDWARD FITZGERALD (TRANS); WILLY POGANY (ILLUS)
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the First and Fourth Renderings by Edward Fitzgerald, with Illustrations by Willy Pogany
Description: NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1945. Regular Edition. First Printing. Leather. Illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882 - 1955). Publisher's original hand-tooled leather binding, elaborate gilt decoration. 12 tipped-in, full-page, full-color illustrations by Pogany in addition to numerous B&W Art Deco style in-text illustration and head and tail-pieces and four full-page B&W engravings as frontispieces and tailpieces. In original publisher's box. Very scarce thus. Gift inscription (1946) and small stain on ffep, else fine+. FINE (Box Good).. Color Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (iii), 173, (3) pp. Fine with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Poetry Rubaiyat Willy Pogany Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald Illustrated Books


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