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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

Thomas Y. Crowell, 1945T. hardcover. Good. .

Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Hardcover. Good. PIECES OF LEATHER ON SPINE MISSING, HINGES CRACKED, INTERIOR PAGES LIKE NEW INCLUDING 8 FULL PAGE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLY POGANG, PAGES UNMARKED

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

NY, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 95 pp., salmon-colored cloth w/ gold lettering & decoration; Book shows outer portion of front board a little faded w/ some light dampstaining to bottom left corner & lower fore edge, as well as 2 small black smudges; light dampstaining to bottom corner areas of rear board; prev. owner's small name-address label to front endpaper / Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates, as well as B&W illustrations and decorations. No date is given anywhere in the book. /. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Willy Pogany. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to 9.75 - 12'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, NY 1945. 96 pages. Salmon cloth. Moderate general wear. Spine cloth sunned. Size: 4to 9.75 - 12'' tall. Poetry::Before 1900 Poetry::1900-1974 Religion::Islam 6316L 6316L

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1940-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. No date, no early than 1933 by printer statement on colophon. Hardcover. Red leather. Spine lacking, moderate rubbing and loss to edges. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. Good. N.D.. Leather Bound. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Heavy rubbing to spine ends. PO name and date in ink on half-title. No publication date but style of illustrations indicates 40's to 50's. Illustrated by Willy Pogany ; 96 pages .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 2035-01-01. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Pogany, Willy. Spine toned, edges faded, ink name on front endpaper. 171, [5] pp. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with 12 mounted color plates (some of which are rather risque), numerous smaller mounted half-tone illustrations, and decorations by Willy Pogany. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1123), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains".

Thomas Y Crowell & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Thomas Y Crowell & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Thomas Y Crowell & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Thomas Y Crowell & Company, 1934. hardcover. Good. 10x8. Good orange boards with gilt lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. 95pp. Cover lightly soiled, sun fading on spine. Red from top page edge leaking 1/8" onto page in some spots. Erased pencil on spine. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.

New York: Thomas Y Crowell & Company, 1934. Undated [1934]. Externally fair to good, internally good to very good. Includes 12 tipped on color plates plus additional illustrations in black and white. Green cloth printed in gilt, 10.25" tall, no dustjacket. Light edgewear, some light colored spots especially to the spine, good hinges, sound text block, endpapers lightly foxed, light bit of foxing to title page, pages a little age-yellowed but clean, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Crowell. VG+ no dj (see notes). 1930. hardcover. hardcover. 8vo . 173pp . Slight cant to spine. Lacks the DJ it would be nice to have!! In mylar. .

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.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, no date (ca. 1930). Octavo (9" x 6.5"), 172 pages plus 12 tipped in color plates including frontis by Willy Pogany. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated terra-cotta cloth, in gold pictorial dust jacket. Top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers.
Spine slightly cocked, brief shelf wear, endpapers & pastedowns with modest foxing, otherwise very good in dust jacket with edge wear including small losses short tears & creasing, still good or better.
A delightful example of Khayyam's work which is greatly enhanced by the mildly erotic illustrations of Willy Pogany.
As characterized by philosopher Roman Krznaric,"The Rubáiyát was an unapologetic expression of hedonism, bringing to mind sensuous embraces in jasmine-filled gardens on balmy Arabian nights, accompanied by cups of cool, intoxicating wine. It was a passionate outcry against the unofficial Victorian ideologies of moderation, primness and self-control."

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. 95pp. Brown leather with gold stamp illustration with peacock on front cover, and lettering on spine. Large gift inscription from 1949 inside the cover. No publication date is given. 12 full color illustrations, one plate is missing, and many more black and white designs and illustrations. Comes in the original green and white box. The box is missing one side, and has some other wear. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Y5 . Very Good. Leather Bound. Later Edition.. 1945.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Red pubisher's cloth with gilt figure, 80p with seventeen delicate illustrations by Carlin, Wisconsin artist. Original dustjacket, Cariln illustrated in color. Small mark on fly, dj priceclipped and mildly imperfect.