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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

by Khayyam, Omar

Price: $19.95


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Book description: NY: Three Sirens Press, 1930 Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). nd (cir. 1930). Quarter bound in publisher's green leather over gray textured cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover, T.E.G. Fore-edge deckle. 8vo (approx 5.75 x 8.5"). 193, (1) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 75 full-page B&W plates. Gilt faded on both spine and cover. Tight and square. All text and illustrations bright and clean. Former owner's printed bookplate on fep. NEAR FINE. Sullivan's black and white illustrations, which include many images of women and skeletons, are stunning, and one, a skeleton wearing a rose garland and dancing, which is used to illustrate Quatrain XXVI, has frequently been appropriated as a symbol by the Grateful Dead and its fans. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Edmund J. Sullivan. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

  • Bookseller: A. J. Frank & Co. US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 04856
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Near Fine
  • Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket
  • Illustrator: Edmund J. Sullivan
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Three Sirens Press
  • Place: NY
  • Date published: 1930
  • Keywords: Rubaiyat, Poetry, Illustrated Books
  • Subjects: FICTION / General; POETRY / General;

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