Published by Macmillan, London, 1963
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 111 numbered pages. Back of dust jacket soiled. Corners of dust jacket scuffed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1963
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 112 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. No dust jacket. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613632.
Published by Colby College Press, Waterville, ME, 1959
Seller: Yes Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light general wear. Overall a nice clean copy. Bright interior and covers. 158 pages.
Language: English
Published by Macmillan, London, 1963
Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Portrait frontispiece; Hardback: blue cloth decorated in gilt on spine, top edge blue; Slight signs of use, near fine.
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Selected works of Robert Browning (married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning), with a biographical outline of his life. Also includes a section on general questions about his works. Book.
Published by Novello and Company, Limited, London, 1913
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
Half-Cloth. Condition: Good (+). No Jacket. 158 numbered pp +10; HB. Ex-library w/stamps, labels, pocket, and Dewey numbers painted to spine. Casebound rebind of the original paper. Pages: clean, bright, tight, speckled edgestain, kraft eps; a.e. tanned, binder Davis and Holman's label to front ep. Cover: oxblood leatherette, large paster front w/ orange and reverse titles, gilt titles spine; moderate shelfwear, extrems somewhat worn, "2.75 N" to front, large scuff to front left crnr of paster. All three acts of this opera, words (English and Italian) and music.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A fine start on a collection of various (and variant) editions of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, most being in no worse than Very Good condition, one in Good condition, some being Near Fine, with special issues and flaws noticed below. The subject and author of the dozen (12) tomes comprising the collection, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere in the 11th century from 1025-1050 A.D. His surname Khayyam means "tent-maker" in Persian. The bibliography consulted is Ambrose G. Potter, A Bibliography Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Together With Kindred Matter In Prose And Verse Pertaining Thereto, published by Ingpen and Grant, London, 1929. The collection is comprised of the following: 1) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872), measuring 218 x 163 mm. (8 5/5" x 6 1/2"). Third Edition. Original publisher's maroon cloth over boards, roan-backed spine. Wear on spine, scuffing to spine head and foot, wear to joints, darkening of edges of cover, but still nearly an excellent copy of interior, sturdy, attractive. sewn-in silk-linen bookmark. [iii], iv-xxiv [1], 1-36 pp.; 2) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878), measuring 175 x 130 mm. (6 3/4" x 5"). This is the First published American Edition from the Third London Edition. One of 500 copies printed. Bound in publisher's original reddish-brown cloth over boards, with gilt and black titling and decoration. Bookplate of Church Periodical Club, thus ex-libris, but not ex-library. Dark burgundy endpapers front and rear. Red-stamped page-edges all round. The bibliographer Potter says that this is a variant binding. Minor defects in the form of slight scuffing to tips, spine head and foot, else Near Fine. [3], 4-77 [1] pp.; 3) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: L.C. Page and Company; London: Macmillan and Company, 1898), measuring 210 x 145 mm. (8 1/4" x 5 3/4"), an edition complete in two volumes. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Multi-Variorum Edition. Bound in the original publisher's white cloth over boards, with red and gilt decoration, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, publisher's red oil-cloth dust jacket, quite fine, sturdy, substantial. Eight illustrations by multiple artists. This edition, "Edward Fitzgerald's Version," so-called for comparing "English, French, German, Italian, and Danish translations" to Fitzgerald's version. Dust jacket spines a bit sunned, otherwise a beautiful copy of the first trade edition of "the first extensive scientific edition," and thus itself a collectible. Volume I: clxxvii, [3], 3-203 pp.; Volume II consists wholly of appendixes, indexes, another nine fine illustrations; frontis matter, 210-655 pp.; 4) THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900), measuring 210 x 153 mm. (8 1/4 x 6"). Translated by Edward FitzGerald, E.H. Whinfield, and Justin Huntly McCarthy. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with quite elaborate gilt decoration, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Fine Introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Owner's signature at endpaper in the form of a penciled gift notation. Spine rubbed, dulled slightly but still attractive, rear cover a bit grubby, slight dings to board fore-edges, else with a beautiful cloth decoration to front cover. Fine black-and-white engraving of FitzGerald at frontis, captioned and tissue-guarded. xl, 1-244 pp.; 5) BJERREGAARD, C.H.A., Translator. SUFI INTERPRETATIONS OF THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM AND FITZGERALD. (New York: J.F. Taylor and Company, 1902), printed for them by the Tudor Press, measuring 306 x 240 mm. (12 1/2" x 9 3/8"). Bound most handsomely in the publisher's original gray paper over boards, fore- and tail-edges untrimmed. French-fold text. Spine lettering faded (as on all copies), scuffing to spine head and foot, otherwise clean, unmarked, bright, attractive of interior. Full-page plate at frontis, tissue-protected, with second title page, also with title vignette, with Preface in unusual font also by C.H.A. Bjerregard, the then Head Librarian of the New York Public Library. Soft, sumptuous, sturdy hand-made paper, lightly waffled, and with text in red and black decorated framed borders. Unpaginated, but with Epilogue and all manner of devices and writerly features. All in, an uber-attractive edition; 6) THOMPSON, EBEN FRANCIS, Translator. THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Worcester, Massachusetts: The Commonwealth Press, 1906), measuring 248 x 168 mm. (9 3/4" x 6 1/2"). This is a First Edition Thus, one of only 435 copies signed by the editor. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Bound in beige cloth over boards, with gilt titling (Persian lettering, stamped). Sturdy, solid, tank-like, nearly Fine of interior. Protected further by stiff acetate wrapper. At frontis appears a facsimile page of a Persian manuscript of the Seventeenth Century containing quatrains of Omar Khayyam in the possession of the translator. Toning to rear endpapers, else quite bright and attractive of interior. xiv [3], 2-290 pp.; 7) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (London: Macmillan and Company, 1907), measuring 205 x 140 mm. (8 1/8" x 5 1/2"). Bound in red cloth over boards, maroon morocco leather-backed spine and over tips, spine with raised bands and gilt-ruled compartments. Fetching gift inscription on fly leaf from December 16th 1916, "To Ettie, from Geoff, on her seventeenth birthday." Joints slightly rubbed, front joint starting, contents quite fine. Rock-solid interior, clean and bright. This edition comprises the four editions prior and with original prefaces and notes. Frontis matter, 3-389 [3] pp.; 8) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM: THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1909) 210 x 155 mm. (8 1/2 x 6 1/8"). Original brown printed wrappers. Facsimile of the first printing, from 1859. Spine paper missing in multiple places, otherwise excellent of interior. 16 [4] pp.; 9) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM: THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA. (New York: Thomas Y. Cro.