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New York: Pocket Books, 1948. 4th printing.. MM Paperback in color illus wraps.. Good+ w light edgewear.. Contains the text of the 1st,and 5th edtions, with 75 full-page illustrations. #128. Solid clean tight copy. 178 pp, b/w illus, decorative endpapers.

UsedGood. 1944 Modern Library, hardcover with dust jacket, jacket has edge wear/tears, Solid and unmarked copy, mild reading/age wear. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

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

New York: Random House, 1947. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Sayah, Mahmoud. Lacks slipcase. 1947 Hard Cover. xxii, 149 pp. 8vo. Decorated black and red cloth, gilt titles, illustrated endpapers. Beautiful color illustrations by Mahmoud Sayah, decorative margins. Edited with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. 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 popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous 'Omar Khayyam… Read More

New York: The Modern Library. Good with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition Thus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on blue panels on spine and cover, Everyman logos, gilt, on spine and cover, printed endpapers. This is the Modern Library edition of Palgrave's famous anthology of the greatest English poetry, introduced by Louis Untermeyer and including the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Edward Fitzgerald's wonderful translation.. Covers rubbed and edge-worn, slightly cocked; unmarked and clean. GOOD. . The Modern Library of the World's Best Books Series. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 426 pp .

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".

New York: Random House, 1947. Presumed 1st.. Hardcover in red/black decorative cloth boards, no jacket. . VeryGood+ unmarked.. Complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with Appendix.Deluxe edition, sumptuous color illustrations with animal-motif, docorated border 6-1/4 x 9-1/2, 151 pp, color illus, gilt-decorated pages.

New York - Boston - London: Random House. Hardcover. As New/In Slipcase. Sayah, Mahmoud;. Gilt lettering in black spine title block on red & black decorative cloth covered boards in a red slipcase. Gold pictorial end papers. 8vo, 149pp. Slipcase ends worn.

NY: Random House, 1947. in very good red slipcase.red/black floral c; illustrated end papers; 149 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Mahmoud Sayah . 4 vo.