Search Results: rubaiyat of omar khayyam the astronomer poet by omar khayyam

Macmillan and Co., 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. Golden Treasury Edition. 111 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards. Textblock is shaky.

Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1911. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1911. Reprint. 109 pages. No dust jacket. Blue embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut and uncut pages. Light foxing and tanning to pages with moderate cracking to gutters exposing netting; pages remain attached. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.

Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Used - Good. Good condition. (Persian poetry, quatrains) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Mt. Vernon: The Golden Eagle Press , 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 23 cm., [40] p., silver gilt decorative boars, with loss of spine. Printed in pink and blue on all-rag mould made paper, 1/1480 unnumbered copies in Estienne type, printed by S.A. Jacobs. With an introduction by Bardar Urmensi Persidis, 101 quatrains

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.

Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900. Golden Treasury Edition Reprint. 111 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Brown stained mark to front board.

Books inc, 1942-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899. Spine top worn, short crack in upper front joint; front flyeaf detached.. Original Cloth. Good Plus.

NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. B&W Plates (8) Publisher's red cloth, gilt title on upper board and spine. Designed by George Hornby. Set in Linotype Estienne. Composed and printed by S. A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press. . Chip in spine (approximately 1/2 inch), gilt title on spine rubbed, light foxing throughout, some small stains, generally not affecting plates or text. GOOD. . B&W Plates. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 48, (8-Plates) pp .

New York Published for The University Press by Harper & Brothers, 1897, hardcover. Published by Will Bradley, Wayside Department, with his endsheet design and page decorations (this title also published by Russell in the same year, different color cover). Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. [Online exhibition, University of Delaware Special Collections] -- Hardcover, gray boards with white design, 61 pages. Condition: FAIR-only (spine label badly scuffed; cover white decoration has rub areas; custom bookplate pasted over decorated endsheet).

New York/London: G. P. Punam's Sons, 1910. Ariel Booklet. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 x 5 1/2 in. iii, 105 pgs, plus adverts. Full scarlet morocco with gilt press and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Top of text block is gilt. Tissue-protected B&W frontis. No date given, but our researches make it 1910. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners very slightly bumped but not worn, edges not worn, covers very clean and fresh. Spine very slightly darkened. The frontis is partially detached, but endpapers glued down in such a way thet the binding is perfectly sound, and the copy entirely readable. Text very clean. Comes in a paper slip case, green with red 'The Ariel Booklets' and has wear and a dent, plue base seam is split, but it is all in one piece and useable. Poetry/Rubayyat. RGR.

BiblioLife, 2009-08-19. Paperback. Good.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co Circa 1920, 1920. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limp Leather, Cover Lettered In Gilt, Top Edge Gilt, Marbled Brown Endpapers. Cover Gilt Brilliant, Slight Fraying To Leather At Ends Of Spine, No Marks.

Books, Inc., 1940. Very good hardcover with no dust jacket, c. 1940s (no date in book). Some gilding missing from spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

London: Bernard Quaritch (original publisher). Soft cover. Near Fine. This a facsimile of the copy owned by Charlles Dana Burrage. Printed by G. Norman, Covent Garden. London. Near fine with no significant flaws. (box 68)

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1902. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Blue covers are scuffed and worn. Some rips along backstrip, worst is one inch long. Front and rear hinges are cracked. Foxing on endpages. Inscription to previous owner on endpaper. Part of Macmillan's "Golden Treasury Series"..

London, Lund Humphries, 1939, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 1st thus. HB. Boards. D8vo. G. Spine faded and torn along rear hinges, covers rubbed and stained, foxed. Facsimile of first edition, published by Bernard Quaritch in 1859

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], 105, [7] p., [1] leaf of photogravure plate with captioned tissue guard: portrait; 14 cm. Full flexible red morocco with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration; cover title is within a gilt-stamped book press. Top page edges gilt. Green-and-white floral endpapers. Title page in red and black. Former owner's name on blank leaf following front free endpaper: D.G. Harvey. List of titles in the publisher's Ariel Booklets series on 4 pages following text. This is number 47. No date of publication. This title was first published in 1902, however, the series list goes through number 124, which was published in 1905. In Very Good Condition: edges and spine are rubbed, with loss at lower corner of front cover; pages are clean and tight.

New York, NY, USA: Thomas Y. Cromwell Co, 1920. Leather Bound. Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Brown suede leather cover with gold lettering. Pictures available upon request.

David McKay Co. (Philadelphia). Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. No date stated; circa 1945. In protective mylar cover. Slipcase Good.