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Portland, ME: Thomas B Mosher, 1902. London 1859 Edition. Hardcover. Clean pages, tight binding, sign. Signed. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer-Poet of Persia translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Reproduced from the printing of Bernard Quaritch in London 1859 by photo-lithographic process in exact facsimile. Limited edition #2 of 200 copies published and signed by Thomas B Mosher in Portland, ME 1902.Clean pages, tight binding, signature crisp, cloth boards with soil marks across front board, fraying at hinges, protected with mylar

David McKay Co, 1942-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Illustrator. Hardcover bound book. Very Good- (6 of 10) in Good (4 of 10) box. This copy is *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by Willy Pogany on the half title page. Simply Signed & dated 1948. Maroon boards with gold gilt cover design & title & spine title. Top edge red. Minor rubbing to corners. Black box top/white bottom with gold paste on cover title & design and edge title. Wear to corners of box with one outer corner broken. Heavily illustrated by Willy Pogany. There were several Mckay editions and the printings are not indicated but this edition with Maroon boards has the best reproduction of the illustrations and would appear to be the 1st. Bagged for protection.. * * * * * * * * * * {FREE Media Mail Shipping! Images available for any item, just ask. Any images shown next to the listing that have our www.aCastleofBooks.com watermark on them are the exact item you will receive, all other images are for reference… Read More

George G. Harrap London, 1930 175 [+ blank] printed pages. Introduction by George Saintsbury. SIGNED by Pogany on the limitation page, and again in pencil on his frontispiece etched plate which duplicates the colour plate of the same image. Limited Edition of 750 copies for England, 500 for the United States: this is no. 453 of the English issue. Twelve mounted tipped in colour plates, all in perfect condition. The text leaves printed on China paper with 45 decorations and mounted illustrations. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, cream and pale green mottled endpapers. 22 x 27 cm. Publisher's original full Persian emerald green crushed Niger morocco, the spine divided into six panels by five raised bands, is lettered in the first, and dated at the foot, the front cover with small roundel featuring tiny flowers in red, blue and tan on a gilt ground within circular gilt decorative border. The emerald green and topaz blue colours of the leather binding have patinated through handling and light into a… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First Thus. Limited to 750 copies, numbered and signed by the artist (this copy being 68). Large quarto (12 5/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 313 x 250 mm.). [124] pages (including inserted title). Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Later silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Tan end-papers stamped in light olive green with a repeated peacock feather design. Ink name on front paste-down. Twenty color plates mounted on buff vellum-like paper with gilt over tan decorative borders. With descriptive tissue guards. Text printed on rectos only within a brown decorative border. Minimal discoloration to vellum, front board very slightly bowed, otherwise a Near Fine copy. "In point of excellence of art, popularity, distinction and profit the crowning achievement... was the publication of the Fitzgerald version of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The book was a joy and a treasure. Its public… Read More