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Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam, Translated into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald
by Khayyam, Omar and edited by) Untermeyer, Louis
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No dust jacket (has a slip case).
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
New York : Random House, 1947. Hardcover (printed cloth boards) . Good Condition/No dust jacket (has a slip case).. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Faint browning on half-title page, no foxing in text Edges browned Spine is very slightly worn The rubaiyat are a series of poems or 'stanzas' by the famous 12th century Persian astronomer and philosopher The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains" Colour illustrations
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55435
- Title
- Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam, Translated into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald
- Author
- Khayyam, Omar and edited by) Untermeyer, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (printed cloth boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket (has a slip case).
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 149
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
- Weight
- 99.99 lbs
- Keywords
- Medieval & Earlier Poetry poetry, quatrains, poems, Rubiayat
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Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
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