Umar Khaiyám (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cloth-backed green boards with spine label. 8vo. First edition. A good copy with some soiling and edgewear to the covers. The spine and label are heavily browned and the spine is bumped at the top. The endsheets are browned else the text is very good with light soiling.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Oblong octavo, 71 pages, Roycroft watermarked laid paper, deckle-edged, Dard Hunter designed title-page and colophon -with a grape leaf motif; flexible leather with flaked white titles on top cover, lower right corner chipped. Scarce Curiously the Roycrofters issued two similar but distinct editions of OMAR KHAYYAM in 1908. This is the second, with the colophon in all capital letters [ McKenna 174 ]. It was issued in three variant bindings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Edition: First Edition Thus (first appearance of this Heron-Allen-edited text with Hamzeh Carr's illustrations) Pages: 193pp, with a reprint of the French text alongside the English, and 16 full-page colour plates by Hamzeh Carr Condition: Good, ex-library. Beige cloth stamped in gilt, black and red; cloth frayed at spine head and tail, boards lightly soiled with scuff marks to the rear panel. Ex-Stirling District Library copy, with library stamp and cancellation stamp to the title page, accession number and shelf label to the pastedowns, and a barcode sticker (remnant of a removed pocket label) to the front board interior. Page edges browned throughout with occasional minor chipping to leaf corners; text and all 16 colour plates present, complete, and unmarked internally. Description: A celebrated illustrated edition of the Rubáiyát, notable for its unusual translation history: French orientalist J.B. Nicolas's prose rendering of the Persian quatrains was itself translated into English by Frederick Rolfe, the eccentric author writing as "Baron Corvo" — a version whose idiosyncratic, sensualist interpretation Edward Heron-Allen addresses directly in his introduction. Illustrated with sixteen vivid colour plates by Hamzeh Carr in a Persian miniature style. A landmark among illustrated Rubáiyát editions, of interest to collectors of Omar Khayyám translations and of Corvo/Rolfe association material. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). …

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. 193pp. Quarto [27 cm] Tan cloth over boards with lettering in gilt and vignettes stamped in gilt, red, blue, and black on the backstrip and front board. Publisher's blue topstain. Fore and bottom edges deckled. Extremities very gently bumped, rubbed, and soiled. No dust jacket. All illustrations present. Text printed in English and French. Translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo, 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, F.R.S. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by Hamzeh Carr. Not much is known about the mysterious artist Hamzeh Carr, however curator Terry Wilfong (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan) speculates that although Carr was long thought to be a local Egyptian artist, Wilfong's preliminary research has indicated that he was an Englishman working under a pseudonym, a convert to Islam, and a follower of Theosophy. Small, Maynard & Company edition, printed after the edition published by John Lane, The Bodley Head in London.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. with 16 COLOR PLATES by Hamzeh Carr, 7 x 10.5", pict brown cloth boards, 193pp, ink inscription from former owner on ffep (dated 1933), textblock cracked, spine ends beginning to fray, corners bumped else very good condition in a heavily tape reinforced, torn and chipped dustjacket with two crayon(?) lines on front cover (not affecting dustjacket illus.). FIRST EDITION THUS.…

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Aceptable. 1ª Edición. Edit. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1924 London. 193p. Cuarto mayor (27x19cm). Tela editorial ilustrada. Encuadernación restaurada. Intonso. Esquinas algo dobladas. 16 bellísimas ilustraciones. Texto en inglés y francés. Traducido del Francés por Frederic Baron Corvo. Editado con notas y estudio comparativo del texto original y una introducción de Edward Heron-Allen. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Duodecimo; xiv, 464 pages, variant linen-backed boards, paper label on spine, t.e.g., edges untrimmed, the extra paper spine label appears to have been used. Two Lane order brochures for other titles laid in. Bi-lingual. A John Lane book but printed in Boston. " [Omar] was an Oriental, and it is sadly difficult for a Westerner to interpret what an Oriental says. His words may have a specious sound, familiar to the ear, but may hide a meaning which he would not care for the uninitiated to understand. . It is plain, therefore, that one is at liberty to choose between the literal and the allegorical reading of 'Umar's graceful and often epigrammatic lines. Frederick Baron Corvo shows that he is a masterly translator. He often penetrates through the decorative filigree of the French style to something approaching 'Umar's own marvellous concentration condensation." - Introduction. J. B. Nicolas considered himself "Soufique". This edition was printed in Boston, and was issued one day before the British edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. No ownership inscription and not foxed. Pp.xlviii,[iii],193. 16 colour illustrations by Hamzeh Carr. This edition is translated from the French of J.B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo, together with a reprint of the French text. It is edited with notes and a comparative study of the original texts, and an Introduction by Edward Heron-Allen. Photographs available on request. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). …

Translated from the French of J. B. Nicholas by Frederic Baron Corvo, 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. xlviii [1] 193 pp. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by Hamzeh Carr. Folio, publisher's decorated cloth in dust jacket. Bookplate; a bright, fine copy in a dust jacket with some chipping (affecting lettering), tears, and creasing along the top edge. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A beautiful edition of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khaiyam, translated from the French of J B Nicolas. The first edition by the Bodley Head illustrated by Hamzeh Carr. A beautiful first Bodley Head edition of the Rubaiyat by 'Umar Khaiyam.Containing the fascinating and popular Persian poems, here translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo, printed with both the English and the French text. Nicolas' translation was the first French translation seenBrought to popularity in the West with the English translation of Edward Fitzgerald, whose work has been published in several editions and has inspired translations both in English and in other languages.Edited with notes and comparative studies of the original texts, and an introduction by Edward Heron-Allen, who published a prose translation of the text in 1898.With sixteen extremely charming illustrations in colour by Hamzeh Carr. Collated, complete. In the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The dust wrapper is unclipped and sound with some shelf wear and chipping, and a minor loss to the head of the spine, which is slightly sunned and rubbed. With minor damp staining internally to the wraps, not affecting the externals. internally, firmly bound. With some minor faint scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves; otherwise, the pages are bright and clean. With sixteen extremely charming illustrations in colour by Hamzeh Carr. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). book.…

London: John Lane/Bodley Lane, (1924). Roy. 8vo. Orig. gilt. dec. cloth. In slightly defective dustjacket. (l, 194 pp.). With col. frontisp. and 15 full-page col. plates by Hamzeh Carr. Uncut. 1st ed.