Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald with Illustrations By Willy Pogany
New York (1930): Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Full-Leather. Item #7744
Quarto, SIGNED 3 times by Willy Pogany; number 222 of 500 copies for America and 750 copies for sale in England. Bound in full green morocco, with a small red and gilt circular device on front panel; top edge gilt, others uncut, printed on fine hand-made paper; with 12 mounted color plates. Inscribed on half-title "To Major Parker Cromwell Kelloch with my best compliments / Xmas 1930 / Willy Pogany." Signed again on the limitation page and a third time on the frontis, which is an original dry point etching by Mr. Pogany. A lovely, near fine copy.
Price: $1,250.00