Umar Omar Khaiyam (6 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: 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. 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. …