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Lot 39
Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020
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[Children's & Illustrated] Pogany, Willy Original Illustration for the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
No place, no date (ca. 1942). Original graphite drawing, with pen and ink. Signed by Pogany, bottom right. Approximately 12 5/8 x 9 in. (320 x 228 mm) (sight). In mat. Together with: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Philadelphia: David McKay Co., (1942). 8vo. 101 pp. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Three-quarter blue morocco, stamped in gilt, over patterned paper-covered boards, slight worn and faded; gift inscription on front free endpaper. The above illustration faces p. 59 in this volume.