New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Printed in Great Britain by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co, n.d.. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. Pages not numbered. [122] pages. Illustrated with 16 pasted down color plates by Willy Pogany. Dark green cloth hardcover with gilt decorative borders, illustrated title and designs on the front cover. Gilt top edge. A fair copy only with moderately scattered foxing and toning to the pages. Light edge and shelf wear to the cloth binding. Corners are turned in. One tipped in illustration has an upper corner crease. The rest of the illustrations are in good condition. Untrimmed text. Several of the pages are chipped on the edges quite possibly from opening up the uncut pages.

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Bookseller: Americana Books ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 23767
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Author: Khayyam, Omar; Pogany, Willy (illustrator)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Later printing
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Printed in Great Britain by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: n.d.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...
Uncut Pages: 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
Tipped In: Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...