Fitzgerald Edward Introduction (86 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ. Edges of DJ ragged.Owner's inscription inside cover.8 pages in colour and decorations by Otway McCammell.

hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ is in good condition. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. From the title page: "A complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth, and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix containing FitzGerald's Prefaces and Notes." Floral red/black decorative cloth without a jacket. Exterior is very clean and square but lightly rubbed along edges. Interior, including text and numerous colored illustrations, is clean, clear with brilliant and well preserved color. Binding is strong and tight.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth cover with gilt decoration shows minor wear. Light foxing on the edges, pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Spine lightly faded, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Condition of original slip-case is GOOD; Worn & soiled at edges. 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated after Original Persian Drawings (illustrator). reissue. Reissue octavo hardback. "Persian Carpet" boards Cloth gilt spine. 32 pp. 7 illustrations from original Persian drawings including colour frontispiece. Very Good condition . No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Mahmoud Sayah (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1947.BOMC Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7ž" - 9ž" tall. red/black decorative cloth hardcover with black square/gilt lettering on spine ),very light wear on book,decorative endpapers, pages clean/bright,Reprint of First Edition and combined 3rd/4th/5th w/appendix FitzGerald Edward (Translated Into English) Edited and Introduction By Louis Untermeyerby, Illustrated by Mahmoud Sayah.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mahmoud Sayah (Illustrator) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good plus 1947 edition, reprint of original first (1859) edition and including 3rd, 4th, 5th edition along with appendix containing Fitzgerald's prefaces and notes beautifully bordered and illustrated by Mahmoud Sayah. Without writing, marks and without tears. Clean, tight bindining. Black floral stamped overall design on red cloth, spine color faded, with boxed title. Without slipcase. Corners lightly bumped. Please see our photo to confirm condition notes. Gift quality without signs of former ownership, without writing or marks.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Ross, Gordon (illustrator). Mass market paperback, fourth (1948) printing thus, x + 178 pages including full page drawings; very gently read, if at all, spine and covers flat/uncreased, tight in binding, tiny traces of shelf wear to exterior, very clean and unmarked throughout.

Hardcover. PublicAffairs. xxii, 540 pp. LCC: 2001048469 Very good condition; black ink mark on bottom edges of papers; previous owner's name on inside of front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket. Previous owner's name on inside cover page. While the Rubaiyat needs no introduction, Calderon was a 17th century Spanish Golden Age philosophical dramatist. 329 pages. Very minor foxing. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least Ł7.20.

Blue Cloth. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Undated Circa Early 1900's. Foxed pages. . POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY!).Please e-mail for further details. Size: 16mo - over 5ž" - 6ž". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Burgundy Soft Leather. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Illustrators Intials MRC (illustrator). Not Dated. Gilt top edge.Contents Very Good + (ABOVE AVERAGE) , wear to spine.The box has the bottom edge missing.POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY).Please email for further details Size: 16mo - over 5ž" - 6ž". Not Inscribed or Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Stewart Sherriffs (illustrator). Publisher's original terracotta cloth boards, gilt titles on black background to both spine and front board. 12 full page colour illustrations. Unclipped DJ. 1967 rep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hbk, viii, 203 pages. Corners bumped and covers dust-dulled o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition.[Persian poetry ; Translations into English - Illustration of books - Persian poetry - Quatrains, Persian] d1047.

Slipcased. Condition: Near Fine. Anderson, Marjorie (illustrator). First Thus. Compact, pocket-sized, handsomely slipcased edition of this most beloved of poems, with the definitive English translation of Edward Fitzgerald. In 127 pages, with an Introduction by poet Laurence Houseman & woodcut illustrations throughout by Marjorie Anderson. No date, c. 1940s-1950s. Issued as part of the Collins Greetings Booklets, this small hardcover (4" x 6") has soft, rather flexible, red faux leather-covered boards lettered in bright silver inside of a silver box to front. This shows through a window in the front of the accompanying slipcase, which is of a floral design made of sturdy cardboard, with thump indentation opening on fore edge side. The slipcase is in VG+ condition, with slight rubbing to extremities & a tiny tear to top edge. The book is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright, pages creamy white & unmarked. Very slight bumping to upper corners & rubbing to lower extremities. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Previous owner's details on title page. Some wear and tear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). No Jacket. Frank Brangwyn (illustrator). Reissue of the 1906 Brangwyn edition. Terracotta cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Spine and edges lightly, unevenly sunned. Minor edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends. Top edge gilt. Deckle edged pages. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. All four tissue-guarded color plates present. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 135 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Soft-cover in bright red leatherette (or leather? you decide) wraps with gilt lettering and decoration has rubbed top edges, rubbed top and bottom spine with quarter-inch tear to top spine at front cover, With a 71 page introduction. A solid copy of this lovely, scarce edition, not ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hamzeh Abd-Uttah Kar (illustrator). Quarto, hardcover, previous owner's name on endpaper else near fine in decorative boards, in worn pictorial slipcase (from 1938).Unpaginated but 75 major stanzas and 26 pages of the 'last version', compromising 102 stanzas. Here is the classic love poetry of Omar Khayyam the astronomer-poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse Quatrains from the Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Includes Hamzeh Abd-Uttah Kar's tipped-in full color illustrations. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 85 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1979. 252 pages. FADED SPINE IS FLAT. Clean & tight book. Neat inscription on the front end paper. Flat pages. -----------LAID IN: Errata slip.--------------------- Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 9/26. Fitzgerald to His Friends. Selected Letters of Edward Fitzgerald. Edward Fitzgerald. Edited with an introduction by Alethea Hayter. Published by Scolar Press, West Yorkshire, UK.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Margaret R. Caird (illustrator). Presumed First Edition Ths. No stated date c1935. Presumed first edition thus. 56pp., 4 two-tone full-page illustrations by Margaret Rorie Caird (1896-1961), an illustration on the title-page, illustration on the reverse of the half-title page, and border decorations to the text. All edges gilt. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubaiyat) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages. The present edition includes an introduction by Laurence E. Housman. The book is bound in the original thin full leather boards with gold titling and design on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear to the boards and rubbing to the leather on the corner tips and spine ends. The spine is faded and there is also some fading on up to about 2" of the spine edge and part of the top edge of the front board and to about 1" of the spine edge of the rear board. There is a thin split of about 3/8" to the leather on the top of the front spine edge. The contents are tight and clean and the original marker ribbon is present. There is an inscription dated June 1936 on the front free endpaper.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Ciolkowski (illustrator). First Edition. 6-1/2" x 4-1/2"; pp [iv] +xxxviii + 162. 158 Quatrains with extensive notes and bibliography. Decorations from the Persian by Ciolkowski. Potter 433. Original printed wraps, somewhat toned with creased spine, foxing to text. Title page printed in blue and black. Reprint of 1902 edition with 14 pages bibliography. July 1926 ownership initials. Letter G in pen to wraps. 2551.

Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; bound in tan buckram covered boards with gilt titles and decorations. Some rubbing and edge wear to exterior. Interior is evenly toned throughout. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout by Margaret R. Caird. ; 8vo. 9 3/4"h x 6 3/4"w.

Condition: Fine. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, book ribbon marker. 8vo. 7˝'' x 5ź''. Rubáiyát over 119 pages (+ Notes) carrying the 101 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version, red lettering and blue grey border to each page. Fine condition book, Fine condition dust wrapper, unused new book. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781848374874 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original limp blue pebble cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt, Collins' end papers. 8vo. 7˝'' x 4˝''. Contains 320 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original limp burgundy cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, Collins' end papers. 8vo. 7˝'' x 4˝''. Contains 320 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.