Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cloth-backed green boards with spine label. 8vo. First edition. A good copy with some soiling and edgewear to the covers. The spine and label are heavily browned and the spine is bumped at the top. The endsheets are browned else the text is very good with light soiling.
Seller: Robert Wendler Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Tan cloth backed with green paper over boards. Wear to extremities with rubbing down to the press board, wear to joints with some threading, spine paper label darkened, some discoloration to the green boards, overall clean. T.e.g. a bit dulled and rubbed. Very well bound with both covers firmly attached. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down, blue bookmark ribbon laid in with tear to tip. One of the letters to the title on the title page has been rubbed by glue sticking to the facing page (blank, no frontispiece). Otherwise, free of marking, with pleasingly bright and clean pages. Bilingual French/English. A unique edition of this classic, and now uncommon. Further details given, and questions are always welcome. Photos can be made upon request.
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The pages are slightly darkened with age but clean and tight. Upper page edges are gilded. Binding is good. Cover is gray with gold trim. Corners are slightly worn. Title plate on spine is darkened with age but readable.
Seller: BookOrders, Russell, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, American issue, binding (iii) ; Woolf B2. Corners rubbed with some paper loss, spine darkened and label abit rubbed.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
FREDERICK BARON CORVO. the rubaiyat of umar khaiyam. John Lane; The Bodley Head, 1903.
Price: US$78.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: - 'Done into English from the French of J.B. Nicolas by Baron Corvo, together with a reprint of the French text' - With an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole - Paper covered boards over cloth spine with paper title label - - Boards rubbed and unevenly faded/discoloured with mottled effect - Corners bumped with some small area of board exposed - Some darkening of cloth to spine particularly at head - Title label very slightly chipped to edges but text whole and clear - Front hinge pulled and coming slightly open to base end - Toning to gutter of pages where marker ribbon has been kept - Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown endpaper - Foxing and toning to endpapers and title page - Book nonetheless solid, content clean and bright -
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Duodecimo; xiv, 464 pages, variant linen-backed boards, paper label on spine, t.e.g., edges untrimmed, the extra paper spine label appears to have been used. Two Lane order brochures for other titles laid in. Bi-lingual. A John Lane book but printed in Boston. " [Omar] was an Oriental, and it is sadly difficult for a Westerner to interpret what an Oriental says. His words may have a specious sound, familiar to the ear, but may hide a meaning which he would not care for the uninitiated to understand. . It is plain, therefore, that one is at liberty to choose between the literal and the allegorical reading of 'Umar's graceful and often epigrammatic lines. Frederick Baron Corvo shows that he is a masterly translator. He often penetrates through the decorative filigree of the French style to something approaching 'Umar's own marvellous concentration condensation." - Introduction. J. B. Nicolas considered himself "Soufique". This edition was printed in Boston, and was issued one day before the British edition.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$156.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp xiv, 246. Uncut. 'Done into English from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederick Baron Corvo, together with a reprint of the French text.' Introductin by Nathan Haskell Dole. Original publisher's green paer covered boards, brown cloths pine, paper spine label and silk bookmark. Spare spine label tipped in at front (fine). lightly rubbed at corners, spine label a little tanned and slight toning to boards, overall VG. Corvo expert Donald Weeks copy with a receipt from Bumpus of London dated July 1956 to his Detroit address for 3 pounds 10 shillings. A fairly early purchase in his attempt at a completist collection.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom