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THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF NISHAPUR
by Omar Khayyam
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(Worcester, MA): Privately Printed (The Commonwealth Press), 1906. Reissue of the limited edition (First Trade Edition). Fine. Reissue of the limited edition (First Trade Edition). Tall 8vo. xiv, [ii], 290p. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Title page in red and black, portrait frontispiece. Bound in publisher's pale yellow ribbed cloth with paper spine label and Persian title in gilt on upper cover. 878 numbered quatrains. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY Thompson " To Miss Lavinia Houghton with best wishes of The Translator, Worcester, Massachusetts 24th December, 1913."
Potter 378.
Potter 378.
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- Title
- THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF NISHAPUR
- Author
- Omar Khayyam
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
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- Edition
- Reissue of the limited edition (First Trade Edition)
- Publisher
- Privately Printed (The Commonwealth Press)
- Place of Publication
- (Worcester, MA)
- Date Published
- 1906
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