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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM: THE FIRST AND FOURTH RENDERINGS IN ENGLISH VERSE
1930rif. 3496New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1930. First Revised American Trade Edition. A handsome edition of the Rubaiyat exquisitely illustrated by Willy Pogany with an introduction by George Saintsbury. Small quarto 25.75cm; full tan cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover and black and gold illustrated label mounted to front cover; top edge gilt; dustjacket; publisher's original decorative box; 1715pp; with frontispiece and 11 tipped-in color plates and 46 black and gold mounted illustrations by Pogany throughout the text. A fresh Fine copy with preliminary and terminal leaves uncut. Dustjacket has a nearly invisible razor-thin cut at upper rear panel else Near Fine without wear or fading. Publisher's box shows some trivial wear and dustiness to extremities with lower half showing a corresponding razor-thin cut on verso; still quite sound and very well preserved. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown
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