The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator) - 1944

London and Glasgow: Collins, 1961. Later Printing. Flexible Imitation Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In red cloth with gilt titling, 12mo 320pp. (short gift inscription to preliminary page).

Random House, 1/1/1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Thomas Y. Crowell. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Front inner hinge cracked. Faint dampstaining along lower edges of pages. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. Endpapers tanned. ; 288 pages .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. Fair. N.D.. Leather. Leather torn at the top of the spine. Cover stained. ; Sued leather ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

W. B. Conkey, January 1900. Hardcover. Good.

NY: Random House, 1947. No markings, Very Good used copy; no dust jacket as published; lacking the slipcase. Pattern of grapes and leaves on dk red cl, gold spine title, xxii, 149pp. Patterned endpapers, text is set in an elaborated decorative border. Colour illus by Mahmoud Sayah. Intro by Louis Untermeyer. (1.6 JM LVR 205/4. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

New York: Random House, 1947. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Sayah, Mahmoud. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine faded, slipcase corners a bit rubbed. 1947 Hard Cover. xxii, 149 pp. Illustrated by Mahmoud Sayah with decorative margins. Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements but chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation of a collection of his robāʿīyāt ('quatrains') in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859), by the English writer Edward FitzGerald. His name Khayyam (“Tentmaker”) may have been derived from his father’s trade. He received a good education in the sciences and philosophy in his native NeyshābÅ«r before traveling to Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan), where he completed the algebra treatise,… Read More

Cosimo Classics, 2005-11-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: Collins, 1971. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Timeless Masterpiece of Philosophical Poetry by Omar Khayyam in the splendid translations of Edward Fitzgerald. Frontis is a Portrait of Fitzgerald. 320 Pages. Previous owner's name on blank preliminary page. Brown cloth cover with bright gilt lettering to spine. Protected in plastic jacket. 7 1/4" Tall. Boards a little warped. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Burt, NY, undated., 1900. Leather. Fair/No Dj. 12 mo., frontis of Fitzgerald engraving. Very old book bound in thin leather with gilt lettering. Somewhat dilapidated: Leather is chipping and loose and torn at edges. Interior is good reading copy. The Salaman and Absal of Jami. Paper is peeling off inside of back leather. 279 pp. 31 page biographical preface. Book appears to be from 1880's or early 1900's. 31 page preface. green spine, green and white decorative leaf boards.