RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
by Khayyam, Omar; Sarkis Katchadourian
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
Galahad Books, New York, 1974. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.
A note about the artist.--Omar Khayyam: an introduction, by E. J. FitzGerald.
Green coloured endpages. The text is illustrated with coloured illustrated frontispiece, coloured plates and black-and-white drawings throughout the text by Sarkis Katchadourian. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured illustration to the front panel and backstrip. Purple coloured insert to the backstrip and within that insert, gilt coloured titles. Illustrated dustwrapper in protective sleeve, again by Sarkis Katchadourian, with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The classic Edward Fitzgerald translation of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam's poems. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [8], IX - XVI, 19 - 131, [1] pages
weight .7
Synopsis
Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power and offers a view of life characteristic of his stormy times, with striking relevance to the present day.
Reviews
With Paintings and Decorations by Sarkis Katchadourian, born in Iran, where he recreated romantic frescoes in old palaces, he then trained in Rome, continued in Paris and then later in Munich. It is really fitting that this cosmopolitan artist's original paintings reproduced in bright colors and the black and white line drawings take you there celebrate under a bough with a book of verse and flask of wine you are magically drawn in and there drinking in the words of the poet.... drunk on the verse.
Fantastic poetry from 11th century Persia as translated by a depressed Englishman going through a divorce in 1859. The first translation is by far the best but it is interesting to get several of them and compare. I'm not a huge poetry fan but I love the simplicity, imagery and strange allegories Omar Khayyam writes about. He was apparently a big fan of the wine.
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- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47
- Title
- RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
- Author
- Khayyam, Omar; Sarkis Katchadourian
- Illustrator
- Sarkis Katchadourian.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Galahad Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [8], IX - X
- Weight
- 1.54 lbs
- Keywords
- Omar Khayyam Rubāʻīyāt, Biography, Rubaiyat, History, Literature, Poets, Astronomers, Writers, Persia, Poems, Prose, Edward Fitzgerald
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