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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer Poet of Persia
by Khayyam, Omar. Translated By Edward Fitzgerald. Foreword By Talcott Williams
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1898. Copyright 1898, this edition likely ca. 1900. Followed the text of the fourth edition and includes biographical preface and sketch of the poet's life by Fitzgerald. Blue cloth printed in gilt, top edge gilt, attached ribbon bookmark, black and white frontis plate with descriptive information on the overleaf tissue, title page in red and black with decorative woodcut borders, 75 pages. Very good condition with a small spot on the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages, personal bookplate on front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044789
- Title
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer Poet of Persia
- Author
- Khayyam, Omar. Translated By Edward Fitzgerald. Foreword By Talcott Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- CLASSIC POETRY PERSIAN VERSE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Bookplate
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- 12mo
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
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