Baron Corvo Frederic Translator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1924 First Edition. Hardcover. Good. No Dust Jacket. Bumped corners. Wearing and some rubbing on the covers and spine. Some damage along top of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Includes thirty-one illustrations. PO's bookplate on fly. 193p. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Deluxe Illustrated Edition. Quarto. xlviii (ii), 193 (1) pp, with 16 color illus. Translated from the French of J. B. Nicola, together with a reprint of the French Text. Edited with notes and a comparative study of the original texts, and an Introduction by Edward Heron-Allen: 1925. Light external with lightly age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.5" x 10.5". Illustrated-tan cloth with gilt lettering to the front board, and black lettering to the spine. In Mylar (glassine) protector. Size: Quarto. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo (super). Together with a reprint of the French text. Facing translations. Edited with notes and a comparative study of the original texts, and an introduction by Edward Heron Allen. With sixteen illustrations in colour incl. frontis. 193 p.p. Original illustrated beige cloth with gilt titling and colour vignettes to front board and spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners, a few spots to rear boards. Roughly cut edges, some leaves uncut. Minor wear and soiling to dust jacket, creasing to rear cover. This selection of quatrains, attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia," was originally translated to English from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Carr, Hamzeh (illustrator). …