Crest-Jewel of Wisdom, and Charapatapanjari by Shree Shankaracharya - 1896

Alliance Publishing Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1903. No Edition Stated. Hardcover. Covers have 3 moisture marks, edges of covers are rubbed w/some small tears, owner's address inked inside front cover, pages lightly toning, couple pages have pencil marks, couple page corners creased ; 93 pages .

NY: Yogi Gupta New York Center, 1961. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Yogi Gupta New York Center, 1961, first printing. 8vo., xix+240pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Orange cloth with brown titles and design. Bookplate on pastedown, else near fine, clean, bright in very good dust jacket frayed along the top edges with old tape repairs on dust jacket verso. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Title: Rubáiyát
Author: Omar Khayyám
Translator: Edward Fitzgerald
Illustrator: Gilbert James
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons Limited
Place: London
Year: No date, cca 1900
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: Unpaginated
Language: English
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Not issued
Size (mm): 94 x 134Description: Brown faux leather binding. Gilt page edges are still very bright. Marbled endpages. 12 black and white illustrations by Gilbert James. Gift inscription with ink from 1917.

Berkeley: Dharma Pub, 1983. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Berkeley: Dharma Pub., 1983, first printing. Small 4to., 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", illustrated with full color frontis, momochrome plates and decorations. Terra cotta cloth with gilt titles and design, colored endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Some discoloration to the perimeter of the pastedowns form binder's glue, light foxing to edges, else near fine, clean, bright, unmarked, in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 4to.

Marina Del Rey, CA: DeVorss & Co., 1964. 5 volume set. Hardcover. Very Good. All five volumes have moderate soiling to covers; vols. I & II have penciled erasures on the front flyleaf; vol. III has a small stain on the front fly leaf and a small stain at the bottom of the page that extends through page 18. Rubbing to all corners edges. Otherwise all volumes are unmarked, tight, bright, and clean on the interior. Photo is of the set we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Alliance Publishing Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1903. No Edition Stated. Hardcover. Covers have 3 moisture marks, edges of covers are rubbed w/some small tears, owner's address inked inside front cover, pages lightly toning, couple pages have pencil marks, couple page corners creased ; 93 pages .

NY: Yogi Gupta New York Center, 1961. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Yogi Gupta New York Center, 1961, first printing. 8vo., xix+240pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Orange cloth with brown titles and design. Bookplate on pastedown, else near fine, clean, bright in very good dust jacket frayed along the top edges with old tape repairs on dust jacket verso. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Berkeley: Dharma Pub, 1983. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Berkeley: Dharma Pub., 1983, first printing. Small 4to., 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", illustrated with full color frontis, momochrome plates and decorations. Terra cotta cloth with gilt titles and design, colored endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Some discoloration to the perimeter of the pastedowns form binder's glue, light foxing to edges, else near fine, clean, bright, unmarked, in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 4to.

Doubleday, 1974. Paperback. Used - Very Good condition. Book is clean with some signs of age and wear. Book is tight and has no loose pages. Slight bumping at corners and edges. Bottom-right corner of front cover is creased. Some discoloration on front and back covers. Vertical crease down spine. Surface tear and discoloration on back cover from sticker removal. No markings inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

First printing (number line contains "1").
Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, very slight shelf wear.
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