RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

by Edward Fitzgerald

$1,250 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages · No longer available

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881 . 174 x 127 mm. 6 3/4 x 5 . 77, 2 leaves. FIRST PUBLISHED AMERICAN EDITION, from the Third London Edition. Original brown cloth, upper cover with gilt title and floral sprig within a black frame, smooth spine with gilt lettering and flower. Front flyleaf with penciled inscription: Prof. Wm. M. Sloane / with the affection of / Chas.

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