Search Results: RUBAIYATS from First Folio

Breslau: Schletter'sche Buchhandlung, 1881. Potter cites 1880 as 2nd edition. Light soil to lower cover, else very bright and fine. Potter cites 1880 as 2nd edition. Small 8vo. xxii, 218p. Each page with decorative borders in red and black. Bound in medium blue cloth with very elaborate titles and designs in gilt and black, pattern endpapers in black and gilt, text edge stained red with designs in gilt. Potter 444.

Westminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1976. First edition thus. Fine in black cloth slipcase. First edition thus. 8v0. xxxix, 136p. Translated by John Charles Edward Bowen. With an illustration at the head of each quatrain by [Phyllis Mackenzie] including Persian script by Sharafuddin Khorassani Sharaf and a color frontispiece. Issued in paper and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full tan morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine in three uneven panels titled vertically with small ornaments in the smaller compartments, the covers with gilt fillet border and a large central roundel. Coumans 462.

(Worcester, MA): Privately Printed (The Commonwealth Press), 1906. Limited to 435 copies Signed by Eben Francis Thompson. Some wear and light soil, VG. Limited to 435 copies Signed by Eben Francis Thompson. Tall 8vo. xiv, [ii], 290p. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Title page and frontispiece in red and black. Bound in publisher's gray ribbed cloth with paper spine label. 878 numbered quatrains. Potter 378.

(Worcester, MA): Privately Printed (The Commonwealth Press), 1906. Reissue of the limited edition (First Trade Edition). Fine. Reissue of the limited edition (First Trade Edition). Tall 8vo. xiv, [ii], 290p. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Title page in red and black, portrait frontispiece. Bound in publisher's pale yellow ribbed cloth with paper spine label and Persian title in gilt on upper cover. 878 numbered quatrains. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY Thompson " To Miss Lavinia Houghton with best wishes of The Translator, Worcester, Massachusetts 24th December, 1913." Potter 378.

Worcester, MA: Commonwealth Press, 1933. Contents in fine codition, Some ozidizing to the gilt compartments, some slight edgewear to box edges. Box of quarter red morocco with marbled sides containing six items in compartments: The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam (5 7/8" x 4 7/8"), The Rose Garden... (1 3/4" X 1 1/2"), The Rose Garden... 3/16" X 1/8"), A Thimbleful of Books by Thompson, and a magnifying glass in a brass holder, along with a proof sheet in wraps. All books bound in full red morocco. The book was advertised at the time as the smallest book in the world. Welch 5354; Bradbury 51-53.

New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. With most points of Hughey's "American Edition, reprinted circa 1912. An absolutely fine copy in worn and chipped original box. With most points of Hughey's "American Edition, reprinted circa 1912" Unpaged. Illustrated with 20 color plates by Edmund Dulac, each page with decorative borders in gray-green. Bound in publisher's tan ribbed cloth stamped in gilt on cover with a wreath featuring peacocks at top and elephants at bottom, plain endpapers. Hughey 21d.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1942. Some wear, VG-, contents bright and fine. Illustrated by Willy Pogany with 20 dramatic full-page drawings in black and white, and with decorative borders on every page. Maroon cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine and upper cover.

London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1920. Hint of spine fade, about fine. Unpaged. Illustrated title page, decorative borders on each page. 12mo. Bound in flexible blue leather with stylized titles on spine and upper cover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First English trade edition. Some rubbing and light scratch on upper cover, else tight and attractive, contents and plates all fine. First English trade edition. Quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, each page with decorative borders in dull gilt over tan. Bound in half red leather over red cloth sides, text block edges stained red, the spine with gilt titles on blue labels and with gilt floral panel ornaments. Hughey 21a.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, printed at the Riverside Press, 1886. Edward Fitzgerald translation. Minor rubbing, light soiling, but sound and VG+. Edward Fitzgerald translation. Quarto. (12 5/8"). Unpaged. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder - every page with florid pictures with embedded text. Bound in gray cloth over beveled boards, t.e.g., the cover and spine with elaborate designs in gilt and black by Vedder. This quarto more scarce than the octavo or folio editions. Potter 202.

London: George G. Harrap, 1930. Edition limited to 750 copies for the English issue, this no. 505 signed by Willy Pogany on the limitation statement and on the extra etched frontispiece ( 500 copies were printed for the United States). Tiny dent to rear cover, else fine. Edition limited to 750 copies for the English issue, this no. 505 signed by Willy Pogany on the limitation statement and on the extra etched frontispiece ( 500 copies were printed for the United States). Tall octavo. 173p. Illustrated by Willy Pogany with 12 mounted color plates and 45 small mounted illustrated labels in black and white, along with the signed frontispiece etching. Bound in full aqua niger morocco with lightly marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with stylized gilt title, the upper cover with with small roundel featuring flowers in red, aqua and tan on a gilt ground. Coumans 272.

London: Folio Society, 1955. First printing of this edition, reprinted later in 1959 and 1960. Very fine in moderately worn publisher's box. First printing of this edition, reprinted later in 1959 and 1960. Small volume (6 3/8"). Illustrated with 4 Persian miniature in color highlighted in gilt. Bound by the Pitman Press in red brocade with an overall repeating pattern of silver and gold threads. Coumans 38.

New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1927. Slightest soil to wrapper, but fine. 12mo. 39p. Each page with large red initial letter. Bound in string tied wrappers, the cover printed in green and gold. Inscribed and signed "With all best wishes for Christmas and the New Year 1941-42 to Miss Pat Holberton from Admiral + Mrs Mark Kerr." Additionally penned on the last page "Written between 1919 + 1926 in Canada, U.S.A. + Gt Britain [signed] Mark Kerr, Kram Rerk

San Francisco: Johnck, Kibbee & Company, 1926. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Fine with remnants of spider webb glassine and original box. The box soiled with two split corners. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 4to. Unpaged. Illustrated by Lawrence A. Patterson with eight full pages plates in art deco style, all but the frontispiece with small vignette on the verso. With A Critical Analysis by David Anderson. In publisher's lightly marbled full parchment vellum over boards with gilt cover title. Scarce. Not found in Potter or Coumans.

London: Essex House Press, 1905. Limited to 88 copies on paper, this no. 71 (there were also 17 on vellum). Printed for the Omar Khayyam Club. Very fine. Limited to 88 copies on paper, this no. 71 (there were also 17 on vellum). Printed for the Omar Khayyam Club. 8vo. viii, 26p. Illustrated with frontispiece and incipit by C. R. Ashbee. In a rather fabulous unsigned binding of full red morocco with end papers of swirling iridescent colors, the spine titled in gilt on a black ground and with two solid gilt vertical panels, the covers with very large decorative gilt corners of grapes and vines and a similar large oval central design, the edges and outer elements outlined in black dots. Introductory matter about the Omar Khayyam Club. Potter 29; Ransom 62.

London: George G. Harrap, 1930. Minor wear with some scuffing to upper joint. VG. Tall octavo. 173p. Illustrated by Willy Pogany with 12 mounted color plates and 45 small mounted illustrated labels in black on gold paper. Bound in full brown morocco, t.e.g. the spine with stylized gilt titles on a black ground, remainder of spine with gilt designs, the upper cover with elaborate frame of gilt flowers and trailing vines with onalys, design repeated on lower cover in blind.

London: John Murray, 1919. 2nd reprinting. Covers fine with one narrow light stain to rear, preliminaries foxed. 2nd reprinting. Small 8vo. 60p. Translated with introduction by Syed Abdul Majid, rendered into English Verse by L. Cranmer-Byng. Bound by Sangroski & Sutcliffe n full red smooth morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the covers with gilt fillet borders, the spine with gilt titles and simple stay ornaments, the bands with dotted rules and brown and gilt rules surrounding, the upper cover with pervious owner's initials "TKD" Murray's Wisdom of the West series. With the bookplate of T. D. Kriton.

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1898. Cover spotted and faded, but not deteroiated as frequently found, good. Oblong 8vo. 67p. Includes two quatrains by Charles P. Nettleton. Colored initials. Bound in full tan limp suede with decorative gilt title on upper cover, green silk endpapers. One of the earliest of many Roycroft Rubaiyats. Potter 223.

Needham, MA: Rosemary Press, 1916. No. L3 of 5 copies reserved for Prof. Charles R. Lanman of Harvard University (total edition of 75) for The American Oriental Society. Fine. Box faded.. No. L3 of 5 copies reserved for Prof. Charles R. Lanman of Harvard University (total edition of 75) for The American Oriental Society. Oblong miniature (15/16" X 2 3/4"). 101 pages letterpress printed on the rectos only. Bound in Oriental yellow [tan] with gilt title on upper cover and with a mounted triangular semiprecious stone about 1/2" wide. Housed in a fitted box and slipcase. Signed on flyleaf "Faith Lanman Hine 1917" Bradbury 4; Potter 277.

London: Geroge G. Harrap, 1908. Sesame Booklets, No. 6. Some fading and spotting, VG. Sesame Booklets, No. 6" 24mo. (3 1/2") 64p. Bound in red limp suede with gilt titles on spine and upper cover, a.e.g. Potter 52.