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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

by Omar Khayyam

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. Gray cloth, beveled edges, black & gilt-decorated cover. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Drawings by Elihu Vedder.. The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. 60 pages, rear page missing. Wear and fraying to covers, some soiling to pages.

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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Bookseller
Monkey House Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
6224
Title
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Author
Omar Khayyam
Illustrator
Drawings by Elihu Vedder.
Format/Binding
Gray cloth, beveled edges, black & gilt-decorated cover
Book Condition
Used - Fair.
Jacket Condition
No Dust Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin and Company
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1894
Weight
0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs
Poetry;

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About Monkey House Books

Monkey House Books is a mail order, used book dealer located on New York's Long Island. We offer quality used books in a variety of categories at reasonable prices. A home-based business managed by a lifelong bibliophile, Monkey House offers personalized assistance and friendly customer service. For the holidays, or anytime, we provide gift wrapping and recipient shipping upon request. We ship within 24 hours of receiving payment, and packages are wrapped and boxed using recycled/reused materials.

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The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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Cloth
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Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...

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