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New York/London: G. P. Punam's Sons, 1910. Ariel Booklet. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 x 5 1/2 in. iii, 105 pgs, plus adverts. Full scarlet morocco with gilt press and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Top of text block is gilt. Tissue-protected B&W frontis. No date given, but our researches make it 1910. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners very slightly bumped but not worn, edges not worn, covers very clean and fresh. Spine very slightly darkened. The frontis is partially detached, but endpapers glued down in such a way thet the binding is perfectly sound, and the copy entirely readable. Text very clean. Comes in a paper slip case, green with red 'The Ariel Booklets' and has wear and a dent, plue base seam is split, but it is all in one piece and useable. Poetry/Rubayyat. RGR.

Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1898. Copyright 1898, this edition likely ca. 1900. Followed the text of the fourth edition and includes biographical preface and sketch of the poet's life by Fitzgerald. Blue cloth printed in gilt, top edge gilt, attached ribbon bookmark, black and white frontis plate with descriptive information on the overleaf tissue, title page in red and black with decorative woodcut borders, 75 pages. Very good condition with a small spot on the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages, personal bookplate on front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Full cream vellum, gilt, a little discoloured in places, browning to the endpapers, previous owners bookplate, a facsimile of the original Bernard Quaritch edition of 1859, number 42 from 100 printed, 2, xiii, 21pp, on rag paper, one colour plate tipped in and the edition signed, neither called for, a few notes on a rear blank . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Full cream vellum, gilt, a little discoloured in places, browning to the endpapers, a facsimile of the original Bernard Quaritch edition of 1859, number 91 from 100 printed, 2, xiii, 21pp, on rag paper . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1898. 4to. Unpaginated. Recent brown morocco spine over original gilt-decorated silk. Spine gilt. Cloth marked and slightly soiled & nicked. Decorated throughout by W. B. MacDougall. . Very Good. Morocco spine. 1898.

New York: Privately Printed [Will Bradley Studios], 1914. First Edition Thus . Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good +. 9 5/8" Tall. 26 Pp [Cover, Title Page, Pages Numbered 5-25, Rear Cover]. Elaborate Cover Design By Will Bradley, Printed In Green, With A Small Decoration By Bradley, Also In Green, On The Title Page. Finely Printed On Handmade Paper, Pages A Little Smaller Than The Covers. No Names Or Marks Or Further Printed Information. Very Scarce, Only One Institutional Holding Shown In Worldcat; Not Mentioned In The Bradley Bibliography By Bambace Nor The Rubaiyat Bibliography By Potter. Bradley Designed Several Editions Of This Work, But This Is Much Later And The Designs Are Unlike The Earlier Publications. Covers Lightly Worn At Edges With A Few Small Foxing Spots In Margins.

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. Near fine. Thomas Lowinsky. Crown 8vo, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.(180 x 132 mm); vii + 137 pp. 3/4 red morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf, London [stamped on bottom left of first free flyleaf], marbled boards with matching end-papers, gilt titling between two raised bands, t.e.g. Gentle wear to hinges. Printed in black and with red ink text and decorations on half- and title pages and colophon. Light foxing on endpapers and half-title page. Slight toning to inside pages. Previous owner's ink inscription "D.M. from Wing Commander Whittaker." This is no. 6 of Shakespeare Head Press' Quartos series. [Potter 123]. This elegant little edition is prefaced with a lengthy "Bibliographical Note" which tells the "story of the writing and printing of 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.'" The manuscript was discovered by E. Cowell, a colleague of Fitzgerald, in the Bodleian, one of the oldest in existence, dated from Shiraz A.H.865 (A.D.1460, some 337 years after the death of… Read More

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872. Third Edition. Near fine. 8vo, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (210 x 153 mm); xxiv + 36 + (xiv) pp. Beautiful dark maroon morocco binding by Club Bindery 1892 (gold stamped on bottom of inside cover), gilt titling and gilt fillets on turn-ins and board edges, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Pictorial bookplate of John A. Spoor 1921 on inside front cover by Emery Walker. Elegantly printed with text within decorative frames on each page. Spine lightly rubbed, small tear to the inside front endpaper. [Potter, 137]. Edward Fitzgerald continually revised and rearranged his version of the Rubáiyát, which was first published privately by the author in 1859, through four distinct editions during his lifetime. This third edition settled on 101 quatrains (as opposed to 75 in the first edition and 110 in the second), which is how it solidified. 500 copies were printed. A RARITY. In this third edition the translator is not credited on the title page, nor is the introductory text. Fitzgerald said… Read More

Boston: The Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin and Co, 1884. Signed Limited Edition. Near fine/Fine. Elihu Vedder (1836 - 1923). Elephant Folio, 17 x 14 1/2 in. (430 x 365 mm); pp. [128], 8 pages at the end of the book have printed notes and an index of illustrations. This is NUMBER 80 of 100 DELUXE COPIES on Japanese paper with remarque plates. Decorative title and 56 mounted Albertype plates by Elihu Vedder, well inked and sharp. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the limitation page. Original brown morocco binding by Riverside Press (stamp on verso of f.e.p.), blind tooled and gilt on a design by Vedder; silk doublures decorated with vines, fruit and flowers, also on Vedder's design; wide turn-ins with elaborate gilt dentelles; a.e.g. endpapers in excellent condition, bar a little rubbing in the middle of the spine. Some foxing and staining throughout, mostly limited to the tapes that hold the heavy paper mounts on which the plates are pasted, and in 6 instances small spots on the plates but otherwise… Read More