Andrew lang transl (7 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Stiff faux vellum cardstock, yapped fore-edges, untrimmed text block edges, lettered in brown. Covers mildly tanned, small stain on lower front cover, 1/2" loss at top front corner of fore-edge. xiv,125 pp. 2nd edition, limited to 925 copies. Selections by Villon, D'Orleans, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Passerat, Hugo, Nerval, De Musset, Murger, ballads, original verse. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. …

Softcover. Condizione: Good+. First Edition Thus. First Roycrofters printing, limp brown leather case binding with red silk pastedowns, has light creasing with weakening and short tears to the leather around the edges and corners, strong sunning to the spine and covers, and rubbing with a few smudges to the covers. Overall, this is a solid, Good+ copy.…

Condizione: Good. 8vo. 396 pp. Very Good, Salmon Cloth, with stains on cover, sun-fading, edge wear, spine somewhat slanted, foxing throughout; shelf wear. Previous owner's signature inked on title page. Illustrated. Provenance: John Ruyle.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition Thus, Limited, Signed. First edition thus, hardcover, and signed by the illustrator and designer, Vojtech Preissig, and marked as no. 364/1500 on the colophon. The book has mild wear to the spine ends, and slight sunning to the spine. Overall, this is a solid, sharp, Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with short creased tears to the spine ends and corners, sunning to the spine with faint soiling at the tail, a few small smudges to the covers, slight wear to the edges with a short tear to the tail of the back, and a crease to the upper corner of the rear flap. Housed in a Near Very Good slipcase, which has light bumps to the corners, rubbing with smudging across the panels, a few areas of soiling, and sunning to the edges. Preissig, Vojtech (illustratore). Signed by Illustrator.…

Reprint (first published 1887). 12mo; linen-backed boards with printed paper spine label; xx,[1]-51pp. Gentle toning and wear, a little more pronounced on spine and label; internally fine. Printed bookplate inside front cover of Andrew Lang collector B. Meredith Langstaff; also a small newspaper clipping laid down, regarding English translations of the book, probably also by him; early ownership signature on rear endpaper of the legendary New York book-hoarder DeWitt Miller (1857-1911), whose library was dispersed at auction in the 1940s.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Reprint Edition . A nice-looking lot of different editions of the Persian Sufi poet's best-loved, classic epic poem, many being illustrated beautifully and by a range of different artists, and published in multiple formats. The poet, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere between about 1025 and 1050 A.D. His surname "Khayyam" means "tent-maker" in Persian, which might, like St. Paul/Saul, have denoted his father's vocation and major income-source. The lot is comprised of the following: 1) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London, England: George Harrap & Co., n.d. A particularly handsome volume, short quarto in size, measuring 11 5/8" by 8 1/2" tall and wide, respectively, bound in crushed burgundy suede over boards in a Yapp binding, and fine gilt-stamped lettering and illustration to front cover. Burgundy silk linen ribbon bookmark sewn in. Clean, unmarked interior. Printed by Brooks-Day & Son, Ltd., lithographers. Housed in a sturdy, if unlovely, paper-illustrated, Good condition clamshell box, paper title-label affixed neatly to bottom. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. Sumptuous tipped-in illustrations by Willy Pogany throughout. Unpaginated; 2) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956. Bound in short quarto hardcover format, measuring 11 1/4" x 8 1/2" tall and wide, respectively. Illustrated beautifully by Sarkis Katchadourian and printed in offset lithography and in full color. 137 pp.; 3) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published by South Brunswick, distributed in New York by A.S. Barnes and in London by Thomas Yoseloff, Ltd., in 1965. Near Fine condition white cloth over boards, brief vertical dent to front board, else clean and unmarked of interior. Tall octavo hardcover format, 10 1/2" by 6 3/4" all and wide, respectively. Easily Good condition paper dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edge-wear along top. Brilliant, modern, erotic illustrations by J. Yung Bateman in black-and-white and full-color, all bosomy and sexy. 34 [1] pp. 4) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami, published in New York by Thomas Crowell, n.d. An uncommonly pretty little, stout, short octavo volume measuring 7 1/2" by 5 1/4" tall and wide, respectively; 5) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890, a reprint of the 16th American edition. Handsomely bound in brown cloth over boards, blind-stamped ruling and designs and brilliant gilt-stamped lettering and design to front cover. Scuffing to spine head and foot, else clean and unmarked. Red-ruled page borders, bright appearance, full set of notes; 77 [1] pp.; 6) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., undated. Bound handsomely in brown suede cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front cover. Plentiful tipped-in illustrations, including at frontis, and with decorated endpapers front and rear. Lightly toned interior, 92 pp.; 7) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., undated. Fine, pretty cloth binding so as to resembled a jeweled exterior, pink and blue and raspberry pastel colors in pebbly fashion. Fine black-and-white portrait of FitzGerald at frontis. Gilt-edges all around, decorated endpapers front and rear. Comprised of Biographical Preface, Epilogue by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to FitzGerald, long essay, Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, of Naishapur, 5th Edition, Notes, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1st edition, Note, by W. Aldis Wright, editor, Variations Between Second, Third and Fourth editions, Comparative Table of Stanzas in the Four Editions. All in, a particularly handsome little tome. 288 pp.; 8) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published in Philadelphia by Henry Altemus, n.d. Cute little, mass market paperback-sized hardcover exemplar, bound in a fine gray cloth over boards, gilt-stamped ruling and borders, letter, with a pasted-on fine full illustration, inset, of a seeming four-story town with a canal and boats (?). Easily Very Good condition, with light bumping to, scuffing of spine head and foot, light toning to pastedowns front and rear, erased pencil-tickings. xiii, [1], 5-193 pp. of text, then another 30 pp. of other Altemus titles. Short biographical essay by John Hay, then a long essay to devoted to Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia. Fine frontis illustration, Quite a handsome copy; 9) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published in 1900 in New York and Boston by H.M. Caldwell. Yapp-boud suede cloth, sunned edges (to brown, from gray), and an unusually involved, textured cover, with gilt-stamped lettering and border around a bas-relief copper-plate inset of a reclining, half-nude woman in flowing robes. Split to front paste-down, not to rear. Comprised of a Biographical Preface, "to Omar Khayyam," by Andrew Lang, Edward FitzGerald's "Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia." Then a reprise of the Fourth Edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 144 pp. of clean, unmarked, quite bright text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. …

Stiff card wraps. Condizione: Near fine. Limited edition. 8vo. xx, 70 pp. Printed in black and red. Two engravings of the title persons. Stiff plain boards covered with a dustwrapper. Trace of soil to the wrapper but essentially a fine copy. With the engraved bookplate of Charles B, Foote, and a Blackwells bookseller ticket. One of 53 numbered copies from an edition of 63 on Japanese paper, and signed by David Nutt. This is copy No. 9. Housed in a green leather solander case, gilt spine titles. The leather is soiled, spine faded to brown, but still presents good appearance. Tne preliminary page states that the poem was translated in June, 1887, and printed in November, 1887. .…