The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam

KENNEDY. - Omar Khayyam: The Mirror & the Eye. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Iftikhar Azmi, & illustrated by Richard Kennedy, (Andoversford), The Whittington Press, (1984).
One of 100 numbered copies in half vellum, of a total edition of 126, signed by Richard Kennedy and Iftikhar Azmi. Handset in 30-point Garamond italic, and printed on Arches Creme mould-made paper. With an introduction and notes by the translator.

Illustrated throughout printed from line blocks in reddish color. (30) leaves. Large folio. Orig. half vellum, marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine and gilt fillet along covers. In orig. Slipcase.

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Khayyam, Omar: Rubaiyat of Being a reprint of the first translation by Edward Fitzgerald. London, The de la More Press 1901,

With a Series of Decorative Illustrations by Blanche McManus, 19 p., col. ill., deice on the first p., cloth bound

[KW: Iran. Omar Khyyam. Illustrierte Bücher. Schöne Bücher.]

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ANGELO. - Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, (New York), The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the artist.

decorated, designed and illuminated by hand by Valenti Angelo. 100 (1) pp. 12mo. Orig. full leather, richly gilt. In orig. sleeve and slipcase.

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Saki, (das ist H. H. Munro): The Complete Short Stories. Including Reginald; Reginald in Russia; Chronicles of Clovis; Beasts and Super Beasts; The Toys of Peace; The Square Egg. London, Penguin Books, 2000.
Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. - Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 - 13 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window" may be his most famous, with a closing line ("Romance at short notice was her speciality") that has entered the lexicon. In addition to his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was the custom of the time, and then collected into several volumes) he also wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a Parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland), and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion of Britain. He was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, and himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noel Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse. Name: The name Saki is often thought to be a reference to the cupbearer in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a poem mentioned disparagingly by the eponymous character in "Reginald on Christmas Presents" and alluded to in a few other stories. (This is stated as fact by Emlyn Williams in his 1978 introduction to a Saki anthology) [2] It may, however, be a reference to the South American primate of the same name, "a small, long-tailed monkey from the Western Hemisphere" that is a central character in "The Remoulding of Groby Lington" BiographyHector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab, Burma (now known as Sittwe), the son of Charles Augustus Munro and Mary Frances Mercer. His father was an inspector-general for the Burmese police when that country was still part of the British Empire. In 1872, his mother, who had gone home on a visit to England, was charged by a cow; the shock caused her to miscarry. She never recovered and soon died. Charles Munro sent his children, including two-year-old Hector, to England, where they were brought up by their grandmother and aunts in a strict, straitlaced household. Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in Exmouth and at Bedford Grammar School. When his father retired to England, he travelled on a few occasions with his sister and father, between fashionable European spas and tourist resorts. In 1893, he followed in his father's footsteps by joining the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (as was another acerbic and pseudonymous writer a generation later: George Orwell). Two years later, failing health from malaria forced his resignation and return to England, where he started his career as a journalist, writing for newspapers such as the Westminster Gazette, Daily Express, Bystander, Morning Post, and Outlook. In 1900, Munro's first book appeared: The Rise of the Russian Empire, a historical study modelled upon Edward Gibbon's magnum opus The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. From 1902 to 1908, Munro worked as a foreign correspondent for The Morning Post in the Balkans, Warsaw, Russia (where he witnessed Bloody Sunday), and Paris; he then gave that up and settled in London. Many of the stories from this period feature the elegant and effete Reginald and Clovis, young men-about-town who take heartlessly cruel delight in the discomfort or downfall of their conventional, pretentious elders. In addition to his well-known short stories, Saki also turned his talents for fiction into novels. Shortly before the Great War, with the genre of invasion literature selling well, he published a "what-if" novel, When William Came, subtitled "A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns", imagining the eponymous German emperor conquering Britain. At the start of World War I, although 43 and officially over age, Munro joined the Royal Fusiliers regiment of the British Army as an ordinary soldier, refusing a commission. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially still too sick or injured to fight. He was sheltering in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France in November 1916 when he was killed by a German sniper. His last words, according to several sources, were "Put that bloody cigarette out!" After his death, his sister Ethel destroyed most of his papers and wrote her own account of their childhood. Munro never married. His biographer A. J. Langguth cites evidence for the hypothesis that Munro was homosexual. At that time in the UK sexual activity between men was a crime, and the Cleveland Street scandal in 1889, followed by the downfall and disgrace of Oscar Wilde (who was convicted in 1895 after cause celebre trials) meant that "that side of [Munro's] life had to be secret". Politically, Munro was a Tory and somewhat reactionary in his views. In recognition of his contribution to literature, a blue plaque has been affixed to a building in which Munro once lived on Mortimer Street in central London. wikipedia--wiki-Saki Aus: wikipedia-

9. Auflage. ix, 563 Seiten. 199 mm x 129 mm x 27 mm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert.

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