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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1946. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1952, 1952. Hard Cover. Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Owner inscribed, Mexico, 1957.

Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Hardcover. Good. PIECES OF LEATHER ON SPINE MISSING, HINGES CRACKED, INTERIOR PAGES LIKE NEW INCLUDING 8 FULL PAGE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLY POGANG, PAGES UNMARKED

Thomas Y. Crowell Co., NY. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. 7 1/2" X 10". No date found.......c.1935-45. Wonderful illustrations by Willy Pogang.....some in full-page color. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (pinkish boards with gilt lettering/decoration) show light edge wear with rubbing and some shelving fading. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

LONDON: THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 1970 Copper moir silk cloth boards with Gilt blocked titles to spine and gilt and silver decoration to both boards,220 x 135 mm approx. Illustrated end papers, un paginated [32] pp.Frontis + 4 other full page duotone illustrations by Virgil Burnett. First Printing thus 1970 in original gold paper covered clam box with laid on printed paper title slip. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine (Book - no previous owner name or insc. Box - Shelf rubbed. No other notable defects to book or box.

London: Folio Society. Fine. 1992. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Stiff unmarked book, about new, in gold slipcase with faint shelfwear. The first version of Edward Fitzgerald. .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971 FULL COLOR PAINTINGS AND ARTWORK VERY NICE BY SARKIS, A FOREMOST PERSIAN ARTIST IN IRAN. TERRIFIC BOOK, BLACK COVER WITH GOLD ART ON FRONT AND PRINT ON SPINE, PURPLE/ PINK SPINE. DUST COVER VERY GOOD CONDITION. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), (18 May 1048 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian:) was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, historian, philosopher, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire. As a scholar, he was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuk… Read More

Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Variorum edition. Volume two only. Octavo. 208-597pp. English, French and German translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliography, and other material collected and edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Decorative yellow cloth stamped in green and gilt, top edge gilt. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, spine lightly dampstained and cocked, small nick on spine head, very good.

The Folio Society. J524 1973, 3rd impression, hardcover in slipcase, very good copy

Pocket Books Inc. New York, 1948. Softcover. Good. Hoekje voorkaft boven- en onderaan beschadigd en dtukjes weg.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1940. Early Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 11 1/8" Tall. Padded Blue Leather Covers, Gilt. Deluxe Issue In Leather (Also Issued In Cloth), Tipped In Plates Printed In London By The Sun Engraving Company, Set In English Monotype Sachsenwald With Albertus Capitals, To The Design And Under The Direction Of Ernest Ingham At The Fanfare Press. Light Wear, Damp Staining Along Top 1" Of Front And Rear Covers, Very Faint Waviness Right Along Top Edge Of Pages But Contents Quite Clean. No Marks.

Garden City Publishing Co, 1937. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover with slipcase. Slipcase is worn, with scraping and rubbing to front and back and all along sides corners. The paper covering the cardboard of case is splitting a tad along the outside edge of the case. Front of case features beautiful illustration, pasted to front of case. The book is in wonderful condition. Corners are square, extremely light darkening to the spine. The design on front board is in remarkable shape, the gilt is still bright as is rest of the ink. Front paste down has ex-libris sticker of former owner. Several small stains to outside edge of text block. Top of text block still retains gold luster, with just a few dings to the gilt. Light toning to pages. Light foxing on backside of FEP. Darkening to the glue of paste downs. Binding is in good shape, perfectly readable. The most wear to this book is to the slipcase itself. 197 pages.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. NONE [NONE] [00no date]. (Mass market paperback) NP. Very good. 4to. Soft sand brown suede, with yapped edges (light markings as may be anticipated). Spine plain. Front cover embossed and lettered with gilt and black. 20 tipped-in full colour plates. Text and plates decorated with ornamental borders in green. Decorative endpapers. The spine has separated and while there are loose pages and the binding itself is precarious, all is present and remains clean and bright..

South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1965. 36 pages; 7 illustrations. "This edition of The Rubaiyat follows the original Golden Cockerel Press edition, designed by Christopher Sandford, and set in Caslon's Old Face type. The illustrations are copied from the collotypes in that edition. The presswork, on Curtis' Tweedweave Text, is by the Murray Printing Company, and the binding is by the Kingsport Press. The jacket was designed by Lauretta Sellitti, and the book was published in this edition in December, 1965." (Copyright page) Except for a name, "Enjoy!" and a date on the front free endpaper the books is clean and bright throughout. The cloth covering the boards is foxed; the dustjacket is price-clipped and a bit darkened at the extremes.. Silk covered boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by J. Yunge Bateman (Drawings). 10.25" x 6.25".

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. NONE [NONE] 1900 edition. (Mass market paperback) NP. Near fine. 8vo. Soft sand brown suede, with yapped edges. Spine plain. Front cover embossed and lettered with gilt. 16 tipped-in full colour plates. Pages additionally decorated in teal green. Text printed in black within teal green ornamental borders. Decorative endpapers. Gift inscription dated 1930. Some pages remain uncut. Very nice copy..

Doubleday, 1938-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Boston: Joseph Knight Co., 1896. Hardcover. Very good, quite clean and unworn and mostly unopened.. 2 volumes, yellow decorative cloth with title and cover design in gilt and dark green; octavos, clxxix, 203; [204] - 597 pp., frontispiece in each volume, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Variorium edition of the Rubaiyat. This edition with title page of Joseph Knight Co. but with L. C. Page and Company slug on spines. Ex-libris author (Adventures in Americana. et al) and book collector Frederick W. Skiff with his bookplate on front pastedown.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1946. Early Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 11 1/8" Tall. Blue Cloth Spine, Gilt, Finely Illustrated Boards. Deluxe Issue In Leather (Also Issued In Cloth), Tipped In Plates Printed In London By The Sun Engraving Company, Set In English Monotype Sachsenwald With Albertus Capitals, To The Design And Under The Direction Of Ernest Ingham At The Fanfare Press. Gilt Bright, Very Near Fine, No Marks.

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, Unpaginated; VG-; paneled spine is faded leather; binding has gilt tooling and lettering; has minor shelf wear along the top and bottom edges, with minor chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and on the for edge corners, has minor wear and scratching on the front and back covers; pages have minimal age toning, have gilt along the top edge; contains photograph illustrations; has an inscription from the original owner, shelved case 0. 1328469. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1930. First Revised American Trade Edition. A handsome edition of the Rubaiyat, exquisitely illustrated by Willy Pogany, with an introduction by George Saintsbury. Small quarto (25.75cm); full tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and black and gold illustrated label mounted to front cover; top edge gilt; dustjacket; publisher's original decorative box; 171,[5]pp; with frontispiece and 11 tipped-in color plates, and 46 black and gold mounted illustrations by Pogany throughout the text. A fresh, Fine copy, with preliminary and terminal leaves uncut. Dustjacket has a nearly invisible razor-thin cut at upper rear panel, else Near Fine, without wear or fading. Publisher's box shows some trivial wear and dustiness to extremities, with lower half showing a corresponding razor-thin cut on verso; still quite sound, and very well preserved.