Johnson Pasha (14 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. 81pp, 16mo hardcover in dj. boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers worn along edges, light chipping, two small closed tears and crease top front dj.

Condition: Fair. 1913. No Edition Remarks. 159 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpaper and pastedowns. Front free endpaper is missing. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Sm octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue hard covers in tidy, used condition, some worming to the pages, translated from the Lucknow Edition, 159pp Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A SCARCE EDITION - only 2 others for sale, both priced over £250 with shipping! pp.vi, 204 pages, a Good plus hardback, publisher's original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine & front cover. Top page edges gold gilt. Ex-university library. Scarce translation of the Rubaiyat done by Johnson, from the Lucknow manuscript. Contains 762 quatrains done in a poetic, rhyming style similar to Fitzgerald but aiming to accurately convey the original meaning. It was common to attribute such quatrains to Khayyam and some that appear in the manuscript are surely the work of other poets, as Johnson notes, but he 'took the work as it was found'. Blind stamped decorated cloth, spine a little dust dulled.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Scarce. Third impression. Minor shelf wear. Pages/boards/jacket clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition/Second Printing. book is tight with no markings, some light soiling to top page edge, dj has rubbing and light soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket condition: Very Good. Very nice and clean. Text free of highlighting and writing. Tightly bound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Scarce translation of the Rubaiyat done by Johnson, from the Lucknow manuscript. Contains 762 quatrains done in a poetic, rhyming style similar to Fitzgerald but aiming to accurately convey the original meaning. It was common to attribute such quatrains to Khayyam and some that appear in the manuscript are surely the work of other poets, as Johnson notes, but he 'took the work as it was found'. Blind stamped decorated cloth. Top edge gilt. 12mo. (180x140mm) [vi] unpaginated but each quatrain numbered. Blue cloth boards have some mild rubbing to edges. Boards slightly bowed. Mild foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. A bright copy of the scarce edition that compares favorably to Fitzgerald's selection. Very good.…

Cloth. Condition: Very good. First Thus. 145 pp., publisher's green cloth stamped gilt with Persian/English. Matte deep midnight blue endpapers, with bookplate of Josephine Haltom Leckie. Three domestic holdings, four internationally. Pencil notations at quatrains. The Gulshan I Raz is a collection of poems written in the 14th century [1311], considered to be one of the greatest classical Persian works of the Islamic mystical tradition known in the west as Sufism. The poems are mostly based on Irfan, Islam, Sufism and sciences dependent on them. Considered to be written in response to seventeen queries concerning Sufi metaphysics posed to "the Sufi literati of Tabriz" by Rukh Al Din Amir Husayn Harawi .…

Cloth. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 762 quatrains in blue publishers cloth, text in gilt, top edge gilt. Pencil annotations noting quatrains, laid in slip with additional concordance in pencil.