Jessie b rittenhouse (308 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good HARDCOVER. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1921 EDITION. Re-bound by library with newer covers. Ex-Library with usual markings. Couple pages minor corner crease. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Condizione: New.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reissue. Reissue. Edges rubbed, spine slightly toned. Portions of publisher's slipcase included. 1900 Hard Cover. xlii, 289 pp. Cream leather spine, brown leather boards and spine label, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. Woodcut frontispiece. A collection of verse translations by Edward Fitzgerald and E.H. Whinfield, together with the prose version of Justin McCarthy, edited with an introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Also includes: a poem entitled To Omar Khayyam written by Andrew Lang; a brief biography of Khayyam; notes by Edward Fitzgerald on his translations; On Reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in a Kentish Rose Garden by Mathilde Blind; comparative stanzas; a bibliography of foreign translations, Fitzgerald's English translations, American editions of Fitzgerald's translations, and later English translations. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous 'Omar Khayyam clubs' were formed and there was a 'fin de siecle cult of the Rubaiyat.' FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Red leather, gold lettering, rubbed, text solid. Poetry.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Boston, Houghton Miffllin Co., 1930, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first edition. Pages 99,octavo, hardcover, first edition. Blue cloth covers with paper title labels; spine label age-darkened, else Very Good 041407A.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Twenty-third Impression. The book is bound in hardcover with a green cloth cover, featuring some minor wear consistent with its age. The spine and binding remain intact and strong, ensuring the book's durability. There is no dust jacket present. Overall, the book is in good condition, with clean pages and no inscriptions or library markings.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. 224 pages containing approximately 200 poems, written largely between 1913-1919, with an Index of Authors and an Index of First Lines. The binding is intact, but the cover is worn, with the top of the spine missing. The pages are in good shape and easy to read. A previous owner has inserted many other poems clipped from newspapers. They are glued to blank spots on the pages so that the clipping, where it covers text, can be lifted away to read the page. There are also clippings and photos concerning a Vaughn L. Sprenkel, a physician who passed away in 1937; it is not know what connection he has to this book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1921 Houghton 1st edition, small hardcover, Fair/No DJ, No dustjacket, missing bottom 2-inches of spine binding is sound, spine tanned- lettering is ledgible, wear at corners, bookplate on endpaper, text is clean & white, 2 pages creased.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition! Pages clean. (Previous owner inscription) May show light signs of wear; e.g bumping, rubbing, creasing. Binding strong & spine intact.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. No dust jacket. A few spots and marks on cover and pages. Near Fine condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint; 1925; Houghton Mifflin; HC in VG condition with tight binding; No ink marks or highlighting to text; Light edge wear to boards; NO DJ; Light tanning to pages; Owners inscription written on end paper.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Some handwriting in front of book Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Significant damage due to wetness. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Condizione: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Very Good. No dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (poetry, poems, literature).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with portraits.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo. Dk. green cl., gilt design lettering on backstr., gilt top edges, corners, edges sl. rubbed. Half-t.p. has 1"tear, pen marks on t.p., also back free endpaper, else unmarked. Viii, 306pp. incl. list of titles, authors.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with wear at the base of the spine and an embossed stamp.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with light edgewear, soiling, and two faint rubber stamps.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.