Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Untermeyer, Louis \(Editor\)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1947. Book. Illus. by Mahmoud Sayah, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint.. New York: Random House, 1947. Reprint. Fine/Very Good+. Mahmoud Sayah, Illustrator. Clean book in clean original slipcase. Red and black decorated cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean beautifully decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Translated into English quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald. A Complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendeix containing FitzGerald's Prefaces and Notes. Beautifully illustrated in full color by Mahmoud Sayah, all page margins decorated. 149 pages. Clean red paper-covered slipcase has tiny bit of wear at top and bottom edges of open side..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027118
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Untermeyer, Louis \(Editor\)
- Illustrator
- Mahmoud Sayah, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- POETRY, RUBAIYAT, OMAR KHAYYAM, LOUIS UNTERMEYER, EDWARD FITZGERALD TRANSLATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- Fine
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- First Edition
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