About PJK Books and Such Inc South Carolina, United States
Biblio member since 2021
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
We specialize in First Editions of modern fiction, biographies, art, poetry and political/social commentary. You may search our entire stock, see our featured items, and view our new arrivals by category on our homepage at:
www.pjkbooks.com
The vast majority of our inventory was purchased from the John Steele bookstore in Litchfield, Connecticut, when the bookstore closed. The proprietor sourced his books by attending estate sales in and around New England. Each week we will be listing more of the wonderful books we discover. Repairs are carefully made, and are noted in our descriptions. Each book is carefully inspected, described and then carefully packed. We hope you will enjoy browsing our store.
We are an online-only shop, with our inventory in Murrells Inlet, SC. If you are local, and would like to make an appointment, please give us a call and let us know what you would like to see. You may phone us between 8 a.m and 4 p.m. EST any day. or email an order at any time,.
If you would like to see additional pictures of any book, please let us know and we will be happy to send photos.
PJK Books and Such
Phone: 631-642-7279
Email: pjkbooksandsuch@gmail.com
Terms of Sale:
If you have questions about a book, please call us between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. EST at 631-642-7279. Our Mailing address: PJK Books and Such, 742 Mink Ave #236, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576 (We are an ONLINE ONLY store).
We accept VISA/MC/AMEX/DISCOVER, check or money order, and PayPal.
Libraries, institutions, and accredited dealers can be sent books with invoice.
SHIPPING RATES:
DOMESTIC MAIL
- FEDEX Ground or Priority Mail Box, $15 for the first book, $8 for each additional book.
- USPS Express Flat Rate Envelope (single book only, subject to size limitations), $26.00 - USPS Priority Flat Rate Envelope (single book orders only, subject to size limitations), $8.00.
- USPS Media Mail, $3.50 for the first book, $2.00 for each thereafter.
INTERNATIONAL MAIL
- USPS Priority Mail International (5-8 days)
- USPS First Class (10-21 days)
CANADA, CENTRAL AMERICA, EUROPE:
- International Priority Mail shipment (5-8 days), $27.00 for the first book, $12.00 for each additional book (subject to size limitations)
- International First Class shipment (10 to 21 days), $18.00 for the first book, $8.00 for each additional book.
ALL OTHER COUNTRIES:
- International Priority Mail shipment (5-8 days), $32.00 for the first book, $12.00 for each additional book (subject to size limitations)
- International First Class shipment (10 to 21 days), $23.00 for the first book, $8.00 for each additional book. Any postage fees incurred above these rates are billed at cost.
Fine is our highest grade. All books noted as First Editions are also First Printings unless otherwise described.All books are guaranteed to be as described, and may be returned within 30 days for any reason for a full refund, including postage and return postage if book is not as described.
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About this book
he Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its 'Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry - and some of the sharpest- edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its first appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'.
