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Ty Crowell Co, 1971T. hardcover. Good. 0.5000 9.1000 6.5000.

Ty Crowell Co, 1971-06. Hardcover. Used: Good.

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.

New York: Random House, 1947. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Sayah, Mahmoud. Lacks slipcase. 1947 Hard Cover. xxii, 149 pp. 8vo. Decorated black and red cloth, gilt titles, illustrated endpapers. Beautiful color illustrations by Mahmoud Sayah, decorative margins. Edited with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous 'Omar Khayyam… Read More

Random House, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. In slipcase, which is worn along edges. Previous owner's name is crossed off in black marker on endpaper. A pretty nice, sturd copy..

New York: Random House. Fair with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. No DJ. Ancient Persian poem translated and beloved by many in the West since the 1800s in a decent copy. In dark red decorative cloth covers [covers quite faded in several spots]; with color illustrations. Each page w/gold-toned illustrative border. Volume dotted with bright, full color illustrations. Edgewear and hingewear along spine edges, edges stained & smudged. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 149 pages .

NY: Random House.1947. Hard Cover. Near fine in poor slipcase. Previous owner address label to front pastedown in slipcase with edge wear, chipping, soiling tears at edges 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pictorial covers, and margins of every page. Beautifully illustrated by Mahmoud Sayah .Bx159

NY: Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Original publisher's cloth decorated with a leaf and flower motif in red and black. Each page decorated with animal and plant motif border around text. Illustrated with 20 color plates by Mahmoud Sayah. Printed on heavy calenderd paper. Edited and with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. . Head and heel of spine moderately worn, otherwise the volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxii, 149 pp .

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

Nabu Press, 2011-09-02. Paperback. Good.

Random House, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good+. Pictorial hard cover from private collection in very good condition; illustrated by Sayah; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23712 Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.

Cemac Enterprises Ltd. Near Fine. 1994. Softcover. 0969912110 . Stiff unmarked book in glossy covers. Calligraphy by Marjery O Erickson. One of two thousand. ; 11.9 X 8.2 X 0.4 inches .

Primary Sources, Historical Collections, 2011-02-16. Paperback. Good.

NY: Random House. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1947. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Original publisher's cloth decorated with a leaf and flower motif in red and black. Each page decorated with animal and plant motif border around text. Illustrated with 20 color plates by Mahmoud Sayah. Printed on heavy calendard paper. Edited and with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Boards show only light shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE . Color Plates. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxii, 149 pp .

Hansebooks, 2016. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Random House. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1947. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Original publisher's cloth decorated with a leaf and flower motif in red and black. Each page decorated with animal and plant motif border around text. Illustrated with 20 color plates by Mahmoud Sayah. Printed on heavy calenderd paper. Edited and with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Spine lightly sunned, slipcase show moderate wear, including split across top seam, else fine. NEAR FINE. Color Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxii, 149 pp .

Paperback / softback. New.

Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover in marbled brown boards with gilt titling to the spine and front. Originally published serially from 1937-1944, then expanded and again published in serial form 1971-1990. This copy is a 1994 illustrated edition that brings together Yogananda's complete commentaries on this classic work of world literature. First printing thus. An attractive volume with decorative end papers and gilt page borders, colour illustrations and Persian calligraphy. Includes Edward FitzGerald's English translation of the Rubaiyat, Yogananda's Introduction, and a Glossary. The book is in Near Fine condition: square, clean, and firmly bound, with no markings and only minor signs of careful use. The dust jacket has a little edge wear and a small rub to the turn between the front and the spine, but remains very good.

NY: Random House, 1947. in very good red slipcase.red/black floral c; illustrated end papers; 149 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Mahmoud Sayah . 4 vo.