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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer-Poet of Persia; rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald
by Omar Khayyam
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], 105, [7] p., [1] leaf of photogravure plate with captioned tissue guard: portrait; 14 cm. Full flexible red morocco with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration; cover title is within a gilt-stamped book press. Top page edges gilt. Green-and-white floral endpapers. Title page in red and black. Former owner's name on blank leaf following front free endpaper: D.G. Harvey. List of titles in the publisher's Ariel Booklets series on 4 pages following text. This is number 47. No date of publication. This title was first published in 1902, however, the series list goes through number 124, which was published in 1905. In Very Good Condition: edges and spine are rubbed, with loss at lower corner of front cover; pages are clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004387
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer-Poet of Persia; rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald
- Author
- Omar Khayyam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Morocco
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- Spine
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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