The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar and Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)

Outing Publishing Co, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover in Slipcase. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good +. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; the text of the fourth edition followed by that of the first, with notes showing the extent of his indebtedness to the Persian original ; a biographical preface ; Fitzgerald's sketch of the life of Omar ; and a foreword by Talcott Williams. Includes an illustrated title page and frontis with tissue guard. Bound in blue with gold debossed design on front cover. Also includes top edge gilt and attached ribbon. A clean unmarked copy lacking a dustjacket.

Collins, 1965. Hardcover. Good. 1965. Reprinted. 224 pages. Fully bound in blue leather with blue slipcase. Plastic jacket. Contains colour plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Small marks to boards. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Slipcase has moderate edgewear with marking to panels and scuffing to edges. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Visible scuffing to edges.

London: Harrap Ltd, 1985. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to spine and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated pp. The classic translation of the four-line poems (qualtrains) translated in 1859 by Edward Fitzgerald and attributed to Omar Khayyam, known as 'The astronomer-poet of Persia'.. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). Illus. by Willy Pogany. 9.25 x 6.75 inches.

London and Glasgow: Collins 1961. 4to. 224 pp, all edges gilt, illustrated in colour, fading and discolouring to binding and wear to spine edges. . Good. Full Leather. 1961.

Leicester: Edgar Backus (500 gram rate) undated but post 1946 by advertising, fep is gift dated 1949 so assume somewhere in between, blue cloth with gilt designed cover, silver paper DW has rubbing and loss to spine and edges at the folds, price clipped , front fold in flap is detached but present, 29pp with full colour full page plates by Anthony Rado, some light surface damage from insects to top edges of boards. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by Anthony Rado. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, 1909. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Cole, Herbert. Very good condition with no wrapper. Flowers of Parnassus series (famous poems illustrated). Small format (5.75 x 4.5"). Green cloth with gilt titles to spine and front cover. 75 numbered pages. B/w plates and text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Some grubby fingermarks to contents and endpapers lightly browned.

Philadelphia: Altemus, 1906. Leather Suede Binding . Good Condition. Illus. by Illustrated.

Leicester: Edgar Backus undated but post 1946 by advertising, another copy I have seen was gift dated 1949 so assume somewhere in between, blue cloth with gilt designed cover, silver paper DW has insect loss to bottom corners at the folds, price clipped otherwise very tidy , 29pp with full colour full page plates by Anthony Rado, some light surface damage from insects to top edges of boards. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Anthony Rado. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

The Easton Press 1976. Quarto, red faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration/illus to boards, tops & base of pages gilt, page edges remain uncut, iridescent cloth eps, unpaginated, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)