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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
by Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald, translator)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1952. Book. Illus. by Edmund Dulac, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. Clean decorated binding in original dust jacket. Clean white leather-like boards with green and red floral decoration on cover and spine. No bumping or wear; binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean decorated endpaper with attractive bookplate on front free endpaper (no name). Pages and edges are clean and free from any markings. Beautiful full page color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. 191 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, has one short closed edge tear, price clip to upper corner of front inside flap; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A beautiful book..
Synopsis
Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power and offers a view of life characteristic of his stormy times, with striking relevance to the present day.
Reviews
On May 16 2016, a reader said:
With Paintings and Decorations by Sarkis Katchadourian, born in Iran, where he recreated romantic frescoes in old palaces, he then trained in Rome, continued in Paris and then later in Munich. It is really fitting that this cosmopolitan artist's original paintings reproduced in bright colors and the black and white line drawings take you there celebrate under a bough with a book of verse and flask of wine you are magically drawn in and there drinking in the words of the poet.... drunk on the verse.
On Sep 11 2011, WonderPony said:
Fantastic poetry from 11th century Persia as translated by a depressed Englishman going through a divorce in 1859. The first translation is by far the best but it is interesting to get several of them and compare. I'm not a huge poetry fan but I love the simplicity, imagery and strange allegories Omar Khayyam writes about. He was apparently a big fan of the wine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034320
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
- Author
- Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald, translator)
- Illustrator
- Edmund Dulac, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- POETRY, OMAR KHAYYAM, RUBAIYAT, DECORATED BINDING, EDMUND DULAC, ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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