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New York: Pocket Books, 1948. 4th printing.. MM Paperback in color illus wraps.. Good+ w light edgewear.. Contains the text of the 1st,and 5th edtions, with 75 full-page illustrations. #128. Solid clean tight copy. 178 pp, b/w illus, decorative endpapers.

Collins, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

UsedGood. 1944 Modern Library, hardcover with dust jacket, jacket has edge wear/tears, Solid and unmarked copy, mild reading/age wear. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

New York: Random House, 1947. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Patterned red and black cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. Spine panel slightly sunned, former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover, otherwise as issued. 152 pp., illus. w/ color plates. Slipcase shows mild shelf wear, VG. Reprints 1st edition, also combined 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions, with appendix containing the translator's prefaces and notes..

The Modern Library, 1944. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Unmarked and solid copy. Jacket is intact, but shows moderate wear, rubbing, and light soiling on the back cover..

Random House, 1/1/1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Random House, 1947. Very Good. Khayyam, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Fitzgerald, translator, Edward; Untermeyer, editor, Louis. New York: Random House, 1947. 149pp. Illustrated. Decoratively printed red and maroon cloth. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed and bumped edges.. Beautiful full-color illustrations..

New York: Random House, 1947. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black & red decorated covers. Light wear. Lightly bumped corners. Book lightly cocked. Light soiling. Spine is lightly faded.

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. Hardcover. Very Good. Terrific illustrations/text, minor wear to boards (no dj, no slipcase).

Random House, 1947. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Decorative, red and black leaf patterned cloth in red slipcase. Pictorial endpapers and page borders. Vibrantly illustrated. 149pp. A complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth editions, with an Appendix containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes..

NY: Random House Publisher. Very Good. 1947. Book Club Edition. HARDCOVER. 6x9". VERY GOOD Condition Dec red cloth....***HAS ORIGINAL "DEAR READER" promotional card from Harry Scherman, BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB..this was a "book-dividend"...Very similar to original copies by this publisher. ; test pages decorated with animal, plant image borders; 147ps pages; Notes, Appendix. Louis Untermeyer Ed, Intro. COVER SHOWS RED LEAFY DESIGNS ON BLACK CLOTH BACKGROUND. DECORATED PAGE BORDERS AS WELL . .

Random House, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Slipcase has some wear

NY: Random House Publisher. Very Good. 1947. Book Club Edition. HARDCOVER. 6x9". VERY GOOD Condition Dec red cloth...in VERY NICE ORIGINAL BOX 1" repair to bottom spine of Box o/w nice box..***HAS ORIGINAL "DEAR READER" promotional card from Harry Scherman, BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB..this was a "book-dividend"...Very similar to original copies by this publisher. ; test pages decorated with animal, plant image borders; 147ps pages; Notes, Appendix. Louis Untermeyer Ed, Intro. COVER SHOWS RED LEAFY DESIGNS ON BLACK CLOTH BACKGROUND. DECORATED PAGE BORDERS AS WELL ..Original plain RED Protective BOX .

Random House, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover. No dust jacket. This volume is presented in a slipcase. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Bindings tight, hinges strong. Slipcase shows fair with rubbing, scuffing and a small tear. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

New York, Random House [1947]. Title continues: "...and the combined 3d, 4th, and 5th editions, with an appendix containing FitzGerald's prefaces and notes. Edited with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer." Illustrated by Mahmoud Sayah (b. 1916). Each page is uniquely bordered with matching endpapers. Hard Cover. xxii, 149 pages, illus. (some color); 24 cm. Vg / slipcase good+. Stock#43535.

New York: The Modern Library. Good with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition Thus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on blue panels on spine and cover, Everyman logos, gilt, on spine and cover, printed endpapers. This is the Modern Library edition of Palgrave's famous anthology of the greatest English poetry, introduced by Louis Untermeyer and including the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Edward Fitzgerald's wonderful translation.. Covers rubbed and edge-worn, slightly cocked; unmarked and clean. GOOD. . The Modern Library of the World's Best Books Series. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 426 pp .

New York: Pocket Books, 1941. Mass market paperback, fourth (1948) printing thus, x + 178 pages including full page drawings; very gently read, if at all, spine and covers flat/uncreased, tight in binding, tiny traces of shelf wear to exterior, very clean and unmarked throughout. . Soft Cover. Very Good ++. Illus. by Ross, Gordon .

Random House, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Slipcase. First ed. thus--"A Complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix containing FitzGerald's Prefaces and Notes;" 149 p., clean and unmarked; lavishly illustrated, with beautiful gold and white end papers. Small book plate on half t.p. Binding firm; clean red and black grape cluster motif boards with clear gilt lettering on black spine have minimal wear, being well protected by red slip case, itself with a little rubbing at edges.

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