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Price: US$25.44 + shipping
Description: No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 15cm), viii, 189pp. 12 colour plates by Edmund Dulac, mounted on grey art card and protected by tissues. Original red cloth, gilt titling and design to the front board and the spine. The binding is slightly dusty, and there is some foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The Rubaiyat. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1920.
Price: US$30.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190 pages all original 16 x 21 cm HB in pale blue cloth, gilt decorated (Image 5). Full complement of twelve full page colored plates (Images 1, 3 & $), each tipped in and tissue guarded. Title page in black & gilt (image 2). Cover only showing faint watermark and slightly wear and fading (image 5). Still, a lovely production.
Seller: The Sanctuary Bookshop., Lyme Regis, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: LATER PRINTING HARDCOVER, 8VO WITH 189 PAGES. 12 TIPPED-IN PLATES. NO DATE, CIRCA 1920. THIS BOOK IS IN FAIR CONDITION WITH TEARING TO CORNERS OF COVERS. SOME SHELF-WEAR TO COVERS. SOME WEAR ON HINGES, BUT INTACT. PAGES ARE CLEAN, ILLUSTRATIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL! BLUE CLOTH BINDING WITH GOLD GILT ON SPINE AND FRONT COVER Size: 8vo
Seller: JERO BOOKS AND TEMPLET CO., SANTA MONICA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.16 + shipping
Description: Hodder & Stoughton, London. Undated but believed to be 1920's. 12 tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, each with a captioned tissue guard. Hardback. [i - iv], v - viii, [1 - 2], 3 -189pp. Approx. 8" x 6". Red cloth binding with gilt decoration to upper board and spine. Plain endpapers. No jacket. Book in very good condition. Cloth to boards lightly soiled and spine somewhat faded. Extremely slight spotting here and there but otherwise a very clean example.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good+ condition, small quarto, red cloth with gilt titles with decoration blocked on front, titles in gilt across lightly sunned spine, slight softening to corners, previous ownership dated 1921 on verso frontis piece page, 12 full colour illustrations tipped to grey card in turn tipped to page, tissue guards with titles. viii plus 189 pages. [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$74.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Anglais.Sans date,Circa 1920.Reliure toile avec motifs dores salies et tachees.Interieur tres bon.12 planches couleur contrecollees de Edmund Dulac.189 p.Poids 580 gr.Format 20,5 x 16 cm.
Seller: JP Livres, agde, France
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small quarto (10" x 7 1/2" x 1 1/4"), pictorial cloth with hand-tinted cover illustration by Curt Muller-Fernau and brown lettering on spine; illustrated with a tipped-in colored frontispiece and 13 color plates by Edmund Dulac (5 from Sindbad; 9 from Deryabar), publisher's black topstain, 134 pages on thick stock + [2] Colophon. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953) was a French British-naturalised Golden Age children's book illustrator (usually working in watercolors), magazine illustrator, and stamp designer. After relocating to London, J. M. Dent commissioned him in 1905 to illustrate novels of the Brontë Sisters. Hodder & Stoughton then commissioned him to produce one magnificently illustrated gift book each year. Books he thus illustrated include Stories from The Arabian Nights (1907); William Shakespeare's, The Tempest (1908); The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909); The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910); Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1911); The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1912). In 1914, he illustrated for H&S, Sindbad the sailor & other stories from the Arabian nights. Dulac illustrated the amazing adventures of Sindbad and his sevenamazing voyages. This German trade edition is a post-war translation of that work which reproduces Dulac's superb Orientalist original H&S illustrations. In addition to such masterpieces, Dulac is also often especially recognized for Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book [1916] and his other fairytale illustrations. Ann Hughey, 350. This book is a flowering of Dulac's preoccupation with Oriental and especially Persian miniatures. In the case of the island=whale plate, one wonders if Japanese woodcuts also influenced the wide-ranging artist? Condition: VERY SCARCE EDITION. Solid and clean copy with Fine to Very Fine glowing tipped-in illustrations (& the hand-tinted cover by Muller-Fernau). No internal markings or bookplates; considerable but unform age-toning throughout. Bump to the top of the rear cover beside the spine's cap. None [archival protective clear polyester added] Early German Trade Edition / Text in German.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated reprint, circa 1920, of one of Fitzgerald's classic versions of the Rubaiyat; with 16 full color tipped-in tissue-guarded plates by Dulac. One of a series published in the States by Doran in conjunction with British publisher Hodder & Stoughton; Doran is only mentioned on the jacket, along with five other Dulac-illustrated titles. The book itself was printed by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press. 'Popular edition', hardcover, full navy cloth, gilt titling & decoration. (There was also a simultaneous edition, slightly larger, bound in red with 20 plates). Light general wear, corners frayed; jacket shows rubbing, edgewear and chipping; several of the plates are darkened and/or lightly frayed along one edge, as if they were loose at one point and have been reattached (all are currently present and attached); edges lightly foxed. Text clean; unpaginated, about 120 pages, 16 color plates. Scarce in jacket. Size: 6¾" by 9"
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Later printing circa 1920. Twelve (as required) beautiful tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac mounted on heavy stock .All plates clean and crisp with tissue guards intact. Dark blue heavy linen cloth binding decorated and lettered in gilt has wear at tips and spine ends.Patterned endpapers. Interior clean and tight. Text printed on heavy stock! A terrific presentation!! Overall NEAR FINE.
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Description: [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] DULAC ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and green border decoration. Publisher's red buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Some toning and spotting to endpapers. A little light toning and a few minor marks throughout. Light wear to cloth. Near fine. Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and a poet in Persia, born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the middle of the eleventh century. The French artist Dulac, along with contemporaries Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Harry Clarke and Warwick Goble was a highly regarded book illustrator, noted for his fantasy drawing, prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). His other works include The Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, Andersen's Fairy Tales, and works by Shakespeare, Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
KHAYAM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London Hodder and Stoughton nd(c1920), 1920.
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Description: Early reprint. 22.3 x 28.5 cm red cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and spine, plain endpapers with 20 tipped in plates by Edmund Dulac each with captioned tissue-guards. A lovely looking copy with bright gilt decoration and firm sharp corners. There is a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge and spine tips and a faint band of fading to the top 1cm of the front board and rear boards and the spine edge of rear board. Internally there is a bookplate for Major Sir Brunel Cohen, who was both an MP and disabled rights campaingner. Otherwise there are no inscriptions or foxing and just a small smudge in the top corner of the tissue guard to the plate to Quatraine I and a 2mm ink spot to the tissue guard for Quatraine XL. A very presentable copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom
Khayyam, Omar & Fitzgerald, Edward. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Hodder & Stoughton, 1920.
Price: US$240.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: circa 1920. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Red cloth with gilt title to spine and elaborate peacock and elephant design to front cover. 20 superb colour plates, tipped onto cream card with decorative border and each with a tissue-guard. Spine and corners bumped. Uneven fading to spine and boards. Dated inscription in ink to front endpaper, the imprint of which can be seen on the half-title page. Some page browning and foxing with many pages being clean. Plates are in fine condition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Khayyam, Omar.. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.. Lon. Hodder and Stoughton. @1920's., 1920.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later Printing. With 20 splendid tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. With 20 exquisite color plates mounted on heavy stock by Dulac. Bound in lightly soiled linen boards with bright gilt decoration. There is foxing and wear to the boards. Gilt is faded on the spine; light wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and to the extremities. Internally very good with some light bubbling along the side edge of the front paste-down. Slight warping to the front boards. With all plates clean and crisp with tissue guards and mounted on heavy stock; in heavy linen cloth spine and boards stamped lavishly in gilt; light wear and soiling to the binding. Not a collector's copy, but the luminous plates by Dulac are worth the price of admission. Later Printing.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
DULAC Edmund.. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.. , 1920.
Price: US$265.78 + shipping
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton n.d. circa 1920. Sm. 4to. Plain paper limp boards with yapp edges and leather titling-label to spine. 190pp. With 12 tipped-in full-page col. plates by Dulac each with its orig. captioned tissue-guard and dec. title-page. Slightly foxed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Description: Early reprint of this edition illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Quarto. Unpaginated. Twenty tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Red cloth elaborately decorated in gilt.1928 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Slight damp-staining to lower edges. Free endpapers faintly tanned. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a little chipped at head of spine and at corners.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$382.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large Format, Printed On One Side Of Pages Only, All Plates With Printed Tissue Guards. Publisher's Red Cloth,11 1/8" Tall, Ornately Gilt, Rebacked To Style With Calligraphic Title In English. Ownership Name "Noel Langley Ex Libris Xmas 1928" In Large, Elaborated Letters In Green Ink On Front Endpaper, And Small Old Bookseller's Label Of T. W. Griggs And Co, Durban, On Rear Pastedown. Noel Langley (December 25, 1911 – November 4, 1980) Was An American Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter And Director. While Under Contract To Mgm He Was One Of The Screenwriters For The Wizard Of Oz. He Was Chosen For The Job On The Basis Of His Children's Story, The Tale Of The Land Of Green Ginger — A Children's Classic Which Has Seldom Been Out Of Print Since It Was First Published In 1937. However, His Finished Script For The Wizard Of Oz Was Somewhat Revised By Florence Ryerson And Edgar Allan Woolf, Revisions That Langley Himself Strongly Objected To, But Which Appear In The Finished Film. Langley Is On Record As Saying That He Hated The Completed Product, An Opinion Not Borne Out By The General Critical And Public Consensus. The Wizard Of Oz Has Become One Of The Best-Loved Films Ever Made. He Attempted To Write A Sequel Based On The Marvelous Land Of Oz Using Many Of The Concepts He Had Added To Its Predecessor, But This Was Never Realized. Born In Durban, South Africa, He Was First An Author And A Successful Broadway Playwright. Langley Began Writing For Films In The 1930S. After World War Ii, Langley Worked On Many British Films Including The Film Noir They Made Me A Fugitive (1947), The Remake Of Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951), The Alastair Sim Scrooge (1951), The Pickwick Papers (1952), Ivanhoe (1952) And The Technicolor The Prisoner Of Zenda (1952). (His Contribution To Zenda, However, Was Minimal, Since The 1952 Film Followed The Script Of The 1937 Film Version, On Which Langley Did Not Work, Nearly Word-For-Word.) In 1964, Langley Made A Series Of Tapes For New York Radio Station Wbai, Reading "The Tale Of The Land Of Green Ginger" In Its Entirety. He Subsequently Edited It Down To Fit On An Lp, Which Was Issued By The Listener-Sponsored Station And Offered As A Fund-Raising Premium. Langley Continued To Write Novels And Plays Throughout His Life. He Also Wrote Short Stories For The Saturday Evening Post And Other Magazines.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$477.01 + shipping
Description: [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac and green border decoration, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Book is fine with trivial marks to cloth; jacket very good with a few chips to spine tips. Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and a poet in Persia, born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the middle of the eleventh century. The French artist Dulac, along with contemporaries Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Harry Clarke and Warwick Goble was a highly regarded book illustrator, noted for his fantasy drawing, prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). His other works include The Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, Andersen's Fairy Tales, and works by Shakespeare, Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Magnificent edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 12 full color plates tipped with tissue guards. In fine condition. A nice presentation. Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.