RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM AND PERSIAN MINIATURES by Khayyam, Omar & B. W. Robinson & Edward Fitzgerald - 1979

Random House Value Publishing. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Crescent, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House Value Publishing, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Crescent Books, 1979. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x0. Jacket rubbed, ink gift note on verso of front endpaper. 1979 Hard Cover. 122, [2] pp. The classic medieval poem is here illuminated with color photographs of Persian miniatures from the same time period, reproduced from the collection at Reza Abbasi museum, and many published here for the first time. Includes a new foreword by B.W. Robinson. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crescent Books, 1979. Large hardback in very good condition with very good dust jacket.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Miller Graphics/Crown. VG+/VG+. 1979. hardcover. hardcover. 4to . 124pp . NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. Prev. owner's name and date opposite title page. .

New York: Miller Graphics; Crown Publishers, 1979. Cloth, 122 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York, N.Y.: Miller Graphics. First Edition No Additional Printings Noted, Tight As New, Square Binding, No Names Or Marks, Dj Bright With No Issue Under New Mylar As New Thorughout Collectible . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1979.

New York: Crescent Books. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 0517282844 . Large format hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "A" in the letter line on copyright page, book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, the jacket is clean and attractive with no significant flaws and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "Although most of the miniatures illustrating the present volume have been selected to portray some aspect of the poet's visions, they do merit consideration in their own right...approximately half of those featured in the present volume - miniatures from the Reza Abbasi Museum - are being published now only for the first time" .

New York: Crescent Books, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. 122 [3]pp. Foreword by B.W. Robinson. Owner gift label, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Many of the images are from the Reza Abbasi Museum, published here for the first time.