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386 –
Ens. 2 ouvr.
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KESSEL, Joseph.- Des hommes.
(Paris), Gallimard, nrf, (23 mars 1972).
In-8°.
Broché (état de neuf, non coupé).
Est.
:
120/ 150 €
Édition originale
tirée à 140 ex. (dont 50 réservés à l'auteur) ; parmi les 90 du tirage num.
mis dans le commerce, un des 30 de tête sur vélin de Hollande Van Gelder (n° 13).
Joint
: HEMINGWAY, Ernest.- En ligne. Choix d'articles et de dépêches de quarante années
[...]. P., Gallimard, nrf, (16 avril 1970), in-8° br. (neuf et non coupé).
Éd. orig. de la trad.
,
1/52 sur seul tirage de tête sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre (n° 22).
387 –
KHAYYAM, Omar.- Rubáiyát. Presented by Willy Pogány.
London, George G. Harrap (printed by Vincent Brooks. Day and Son Ltd lithographers),
s.d.
Large in-8°; 24 plates (browned, unnumbered pages).
Publisher's binding: brown shagreen, upper board with blind stamp and three gilt floral medallions, flat spine
entirely gilt decorated, pastedowns and flyleaves with Arabic ornaments with Arabic script by Pogány, gilt top
edge (light traces of use).
Est.
:
300/ 400 €
Illustrated with 24 watercolours in reproduction mounted on a full-page encircled with a fine
decorated border. The 75 rubáiyát, corresponding to the first rendering of Fitzgerald (1809-
1883), are printed in a dark brown cursive typography in Arabic style ornamented with
various coloured decorations. Printed on pages encircled by an ornamental frame of which
the recto contains the number of the poems in a vignette. Unnumbered edition on tinted
vellum with the introduction of Lowell paying tribute to Fitzgerald in stringing Khayyam
pearls "on an English thread". The prolific Hungarian illustrator Pogány (1882-1955), well-
known for his ink and pen drawings of myths and fables, gave his first interpretation of
the work of Khayyam in 1909. His illustrations are contained in several editions by many
publishers (Harrap, Crowell…), this undated copy is probably part of the first.
● Illustrations completely different from the following edition (n° 388).
¶ Illustré de 24 planches en couleurs et orné de nombreux décors et encadrements en couleurs dans le
style Arabe. Ex. non justifié. Rel. d'édition en plein chagrin brun (lég. bruni).
388 –
Ens. 2 éd. du même ouvr.
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KHAYYAM,
Omar.- Rubáiyát. The first and four renderings in
English verse by Edward FitzGerald.
With illustrations by Willy Pogány.
London, George G. Harrap (printed by R. and R. Clark,
1930).
Large in-8°: 12 plates (copy with some pp. unopened).
Contemporary binding: turquoise straight grained morocco, upper
board with gilt medallion presenting coloured calf floral onlay, ribbed
spine, gilt top edge. Under box (some damages).
Est.
:
600/ 800 €
Illustrated with 12 watercolours (incl. frontispiece) in repro-
duction mounted by the upper board (captions in the table of
illustrations). The 176 rubáiyát (75 from the first rendering of
Fitzgerald and 101 from the fourth) printed in black Roman
type are decorated with head-pieces of which 45 in triptych