Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-yezdi. by Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)

London and Glasgow: Collins, 1961. Later Printing. Flexible Imitation Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In red cloth with gilt titling, 12mo 320pp. (short gift inscription to preliminary page).

Random House, 1/1/1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Thomas Y. Crowell. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Front inner hinge cracked. Faint dampstaining along lower edges of pages. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. Endpapers tanned. ; 288 pages .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. Fair. N.D.. Leather. Leather torn at the top of the spine. Cover stained. ; Sued leather ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

W. B. Conkey, January 1900. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Random House, 1947. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Sayah, Mahmoud. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine faded, slipcase corners a bit rubbed. 1947 Hard Cover. xxii, 149 pp. Illustrated by Mahmoud Sayah with decorative margins. Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements but chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation of a collection of his robāʿīyāt ('quatrains') in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859), by the English writer Edward FitzGerald. His name Khayyam (“Tentmaker”) may have been derived from his father’s trade. He received a good education in the sciences and philosophy in his native NeyshābÅ«r before traveling to Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan), where he completed the algebra treatise,… Read More

NY: Random House, 1947. No markings, Very Good used copy; no dust jacket as published; lacking the slipcase. Pattern of grapes and leaves on dk red cl, gold spine title, xxii, 149pp. Patterned endpapers, text is set in an elaborated decorative border. Colour illus by Mahmoud Sayah. Intro by Louis Untermeyer. (1.6 JM LVR 205/4. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Burt, NY, undated., 1900. Leather. Fair/No Dj. 12 mo., frontis of Fitzgerald engraving. Very old book bound in thin leather with gilt lettering. Somewhat dilapidated: Leather is chipping and loose and torn at edges. Interior is good reading copy. The Salaman and Absal of Jami. Paper is peeling off inside of back leather. 279 pp. 31 page biographical preface. Book appears to be from 1880's or early 1900's. 31 page preface. green spine, green and white decorative leaf boards.

Cosimo Classics, 2005-11-01. Paperback. Good.

Thomas Y. Crowell, 1897. First Thus. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy in the (very attractive) original green cloth elaborately decorated with floral designs in gilt, top edge gilt (minor wear; ink inscription on endpaper dated 1897). 288 pages + plate. Spine and upper cover title: Rubaiyat. Possible later issue; includes the texts of the first and the fifth editions of FitzGerald's reworkings of Omar Khayyam, as well as his translation of Jami's poem, with supplemental material (biographical preface signed 'M. K.'; Tennyson's poem ('To E. FitzGerald'); table of textual variations and comparative table of stanzas in the first 4 edition of the Rubaiyat; FitzGerald's 'Life of Jami' and the 'Letter to Professor Cowell'; notes by FitzGerald and editor Wright; plus an appendix for 'Salaman and Absal'). Date is conjectural (not dated in book). 1 b/w Frontispiece (portrait).