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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
by Omar Khayyam, illustrated by H Shakiba, with calligraphy by Y Khanlarzadeh:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 9649282769
- ISBN 13
- 9789649282763
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Tehran: Gooya Publishing co, 2009. Fifth impression (hardback). 4to (34cm by 24cm), 280pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original purple boards, dustwrapper, illustrated card slipcase. There is a gift inscription to the rear free endpaper; otherwise, the book, dustwrapper are slipcase are all in very good condition (some light rubbing to the extremities of the slipcase). With text in Persian, English, German, French and Arabic. ISBN 9649282769
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
On May 16 2016, a reader said:
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.
On Sep 11 2011, WonderPony said:
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72234
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
- Author
- Omar Khayyam, illustrated by H Shakiba, with calligraphy by Y Khanlarzadeh:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 9649282769
- ISBN 13
- 9789649282763
- Publisher
- Tehran: Gooya Publishing co, 2009.
- Place of Publication
- Teheran, Iran
- This edition first published
- 2002
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Tewkesbury
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We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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