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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st thus edition; w/2 white vellem w/olive green boards, gilt decorations/title, lite wear at extremities; moderate wear; age-tonging of end papers; top edges gilt;owner's name; 419,469 clean, unmarked pages; in nglish. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).

First Edition. Edited by Edward Clodd, Clement Shorter and Winifred Stephens Whale. Pp. 270, frontispiece portrait, plus 1 plate; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut, several leaves partly unopened; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with two longer closed tears to back panel, one of which is repaired with brown paper on reverse; the free endpapers lightly offset, cancel title page, a little light foxing; Jonathan Cape, London, 1926. First edition. *Memorial volume, containing nine essays by Whale, plus tributes from Augustine Birrell, H. G. Wells, and others, and a biographical note by Winifred Stephens Whale. George Whale was chairman of the Rationalist Press Association.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 408 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A nice-looking lot of eight different editions of the Sufi poet's best-loved, classic epic poem. The individual volumes are illustrated beautifully by a range of different artists and in multiple formats, but each is in hardcover format. The poet, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere between about 1025 and 1050 A.D. His surname "Khayyam" means "tent-maker" in Persian, which might, like St. Paul/Saul, have denoted his father's vocation and major income-source. The lot is comprised of the following: 1) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated and edited by Edward FitzGerald, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1922, illustrated by Fish (the British artist Ann Harriet Fish). Preface to the First Edition included here. Possibly a variant binding but of a quite scarce and valuable edition. Sturdy, though rear joint cloth cracked, bound as a big, tall, quarto hardcover format, decorated orange, black and vanilla paper over boards, abraded and rubbed, black cloth-backed, bumping to and scuffing of spine head and foot. Decorated duotone endpapers front and rear. Fine frontis illustration, tissue protected. List of illustrations show a half-title design, then illustrations to 18 quatrains, each being tissue-guarded, and quite fine. Evocative historiated initials. 108 pp.; 2) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with an Introduction by T. Cuyler Young, and illustrated by Eugene Karlin, 1964, a fourth printing of this edition. Near Fine condition brick-red cloth over boards, gilt illustration to front cover, lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, price-clipped and machine-clipped, chipping to and closed tear of top edge. Evocative black-and-white illustrations throughout. 80 [2] pp. plus a note about the illustrator and the edition; 3) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, edited and with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer, New York: Random House, 1947. Very Good condition decorated red and black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Light scuffing to spine foot, else quite sturdy of binding and attractive of interior. Illustrated duotone endpapers front and rear, fine full-color illustration at frontis, based on a translation of the First Edition and combinations of the third, fourth, and fifth editions. 147 [4] pp.; 4) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London: Macmillan & Co., 1895, a Very Good condition exemplar in hardcover format, vanilla cloth over boards, short octavo in format, gilt-ruled front and rear, gilt lettering to spine. Heavily toned endpapers, dissipating quickly. Loose bookplate of Holbrook Jackson laid in at front. Rough-cut fore-edges. 112 pp.; 5) Omar Khayyam's Quatrains, English-Persian, compiled by A. Mirbagheri, published in Tehran, Iran, by Ketabsaraye. Nearly brand-new in appearance, bound in brick-red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, with Persian Introduction by Moini Kermanshabi, with calligraphy by Mohammad Tagi Safania (bilingual in English and Persian) and illustrations by Reza Badrolsama throughout, many score of them. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Gilt edges all around. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp. Gift-quality condition. 6) Fine condition exemplar of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published in London by Collins, n.d., but roughly 1950s, red leatherette over boards, gilt-stamped lettering to front cover, housed in a Very Good condition cardboard slipcase, blue and gold, and illustrated beautifully by evocative black-and-white engravings by Marjorie Anderson. 126 [1] pp. 7) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Introduction by Clement K. Shorter, published in 1907 by William Heinemann of London, England. Pocketbook-sized gray cloth over boards, blind-stamped design and ruling to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Black-and-white portrait of Edward FitzGerald at frontis, tissue-protected. 68 pp.; 8) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Preface by Nathan Haskell Dole, published in 1900 by Thomas Mosher of N.…