The Book Shed

No slipcase. Light shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, previous owner's name and date (1951) to front endpaper; no jacket. A bright clean copy. First printing, no others noted. All illustrations present and correct although one wishes they were not double sided. The first printing of a special edition. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains". Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.