Rumi Jalaluddin Mohammad (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ruminations by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi and translated by Zahra Partovi. (Presumed) First Edition, First Printing. Soft cover. Signed by the translator Zahra Partovi and dated Oct 2011. Clean text. Condition displayed in photos. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Quotations from the writings of Jalaliuddin Mohammad Rumi. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 61 numbered pp +1; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; no defects. Cover: textured gray card wraps with French flaps, geometric shapes blind stamped all surfaces, red titles front/spine; minimal edge/shelfwear.

silk boards, clamshell box. FitzGerald, Vincent (illustrator). 18 cm by 24 cm. silk boards, clamshell box. (28) pages. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author and artist. Dedicated to Mohammad Ali on the colophon. Interpreted by Zahra Partovi, whom also provided the calligraphy. Printed by Allethaire Press & Wild Carrot Letterpress. Composed by The Shagbark Press. Etchings by Annette Senneby. With a line-shaped etching extending over 28 pages. Printed on Velin Rives Johannot. The young Iranian artist Zahra Partovi bound the book in silk with decorated paste-paper endpapers and pastedowns, as well as translated the sentences of the Persian poet Rumi (1207-1273) into modern Persian and called this text. She also did the English translation. The etching by Annette Senneby (born 1951, Swedish sculptor) and M'Lis Bartlett of The Printmaking Workshop runs like a "gray thread" through the entire book. The book is housed in a custom clamshell box crafted by David Bourbeau of the Thistle Bindery with steel plates from Hector Perez embedded in the covers. A pristine copy.

New York; Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989. 17x24 cm. (32) pp. + 2 blank leaves on maroon luxury paper. Bound in black silk by Zahra Partovi, and housed in a black silk clamshell box (David Bourbeau, Thistle Bindery) with steel plates inserted on the boards. Both the book and the box are shaped as trapezoids. Very fine. The text was printed by Allethaire Press and the Wild Carrot Letterpress, and the etchings by Marjorie Van Dyke and M'Lis Bartlett at The Printmaking Workshop on Rives Johannot and Dieu Donné paper. The etchings are printed as a continuous line throughout the book. The text, Rumi's parable on the Chinese painters versus the Greek painters, comes from the Mathnawi, translated and calligraphed by Partovi. No. 3 of 50 copies printed, signed by both the artist and translator on the colophon. From the library of Anders Tornberg Gallery in Lund, Sweden.

New York; The Kelly / Winterton Press, 1981. 24,5x17 cm. (12, 12 blanks) pp. + 5 woodblock prints. Original printed wrappers, without the slipcase. The oversized wrappers are slightly creased in margins. A fine copy. The text is translated from the first part of the Masnavi. Printed in 200 copies on Rives paper, and another 50 copies which were signed by the translator and the illustrator, including an extra set of the drawings. This is no. 57 of 200. Inscribed to gallery owner Anders Tornberg by the translator and the publisher Vincent Fitzgerald: "Best birthday greetings for Anders - Zahra + Vincent / 21 July 1987 / NYC". From the library of Anders Tornberg Gallery in Lund, Sweden, and with a stamp confirming this on the last blank page.

New York; Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989. 24,5x17 cm. (20) pp. Leporello binding by Zahra Partovi, with grey Dieu Donné paper on boards and a paper-label on front board, housed in matching card portfolio with silk tie closure. A very fine copy. The text was printed by Kelly Winterton at the Wild Carrot Letterpress on J. B. Green paper, and the etchings by Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. Illustrated with Line etchings and mezzotints by Susan Weil. The original Persian text is printed on the verso. Issued in 50 copies, all of them signed by Weil and Partovi. This in no. 11.

New York; Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1987. 27x16,5 cm. (23, 1 blank) pp. Leporello binding with black cloth-boards and paper-label, by Gérard Charrière and Zahra Partovi, placed in a red card folder. Very fine. The text was printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress on Moulin du Gue paper, and the etchings by Marjorie Van Dyke at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. The etchings are printed as a continuum at the top of the pages, and measure approximately 3,3 meters when unfolded. No. 24 of 100 copies printed, signed by the artist and translator. From the library of Anders Tornberg Gallery in Lund, Sweden, and with a stamp confirming this on rear inner board.

Condition: Sehr gut. Leporello unpaginiert. -Zap7- (sehr guter Zustand) Beiliegend Handschriftliches Widmungsschreiben: "For Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse in Appreciation" des Verlegers Vincent FitzGerald und ein handschriftliche Antwortschreiben von Gudrun Zapf "really one of the finest edition in my type I have ever seen." Text englisch. Aus der Bibliothek von Hermann Zapf und Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. [Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, geborene von Hesse (* 2. Januar 1918 in Schwerin; 13. Dezember 2019 in Darmstadt), war eine international bekannte deutsche Typografin und Buchbinderin. Von 1951 bis zu seinem Tod im Jahre 2015 war sie mit Hermann Zapf verheiratet. Hermann Zapf (* 8. November 1918 in Nürnberg; 4. Juni 2015 in Darmstadt) war ein deutscher Typograf, der als Designer für Buch- und Schriftgrafik vor allem als Schriftdesigner und Kalligraf tätig war. Insgesamt entwarf Zapf in seinem Berufsleben über 200 Druckschriften. (Wikipedia, Abruf am 9.2.2026)] Ich versende mit der Deutschen Post (Büchersendung) und der DHL (Pakete). Die Lieferzeit ist abhängig von der Versandart und beträgt innerhalb Deutschlands 3-5 Tage, in der EU 5 - 14 Tage. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 Leporello in O-Pappeinband in O-Flügelmappe, 24,5x17 cm Nummeriert Nr. 12 signiert von Susan Weil und mit einer persichen Signatur (verrmutlich vom Autor Rumi).