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Lot 217
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 -
400
Price Realized
$688
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Lot Description
[RUBAIYAT]. FITZGERALD, Edward, translator. -- POGANY, Willy, illusrator. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1942.
8vo (240 x 161 mm). Frontispiece and 19 illustrations after Pogany. Dark blue crushed levant, sides elaborately gilt, central interlacing strapwork surrounding a central flower on a stippled field, floral arabesque corner-pieces with overall stippling, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands gilt-lettered in two, the rest with gilt floral or arabesque design, top edge gilt.
