Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Leather Bound Collector’s Edition of The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám. Easton Press, 1988. Newer printing b
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards with strong gilt accents, clean gilt page blocks, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, no edge wear and strong corners. Silk moire paste downs are clean with no bookplate. Ribbon appears to be moved from original position. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.
No dust jacket, as issued.
Omar, son of a tentmaker (Khayyam), was born at Nishapur in the latter half of he eleventh century, and died early in the twelfth century. He was a deeply learned man who followed his own convictions. He evolved a concept of life which was basically mystic: he preached the moral purity of the contemplative life; he struggled to master the eternal, the good, the beautiful. And he set down his newly found convictions in a series of quatrain.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
