Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – Edward Fitzgerald
NF/VG 1971 Printing

The book is in Near Fine  condition with clean, black cloth boards with a gilt illustration on the front and strong title gilt on the decorated spine. Also with, a few spots on the top page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.

The rare dust jacket is in Very Good  condition with mild surface wear, a small hole in the front flap seam, heavy edge wear and the $3.95 price is still present on the diagonally-cut front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام‎) 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”.