Published by Random House, New York, 1947
Seller: Canal Bookyard, Upper Black Eddy, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Red titles on black ground with red and black design on cloth covers, 147 pages illustrated plus 22 pages of introductory material including an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Comes with a sound red slipcase that is scuffed at one corner.
Published by William Brendon and Son, Ltd.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No published date, circa 1880; red cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; wear and discoloration around edges; spine is heavily sun faded; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 75 pages.
London, The Folio Society, 1999 Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase, 32pp., 14x22,5cm., illustr. by Virgil Burnett in b/w. , in good condition (slipcover with some traces of use, binding in very good condition, name and date in pencil on first page). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 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".