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Item #1475 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Omar Khayyám

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

The 1905 first Dodge Publishing Co. edition of The Rubáiyát with a wonderful deco cover and stylized color deco introduction page. This edition with sepia-toned photogravure illustrations by Adelaide Leeson (1875-1931), printed on delicate tissue pages. Leeson was a California artist and photographer (born in Coos Bay, Oregon) and was one of the first to use photography to illustrate literary works. She also hand-worked her negatives to achieve the images she wanted, being a pioneer of this technique. Leeson enlisted then well-known California literary figures, including Charles Keeler, Joaquin Miller.....
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Illustrated Book of Verse
Dodge Publishing Company
8" x 10.5"
Unpaginated, approx. 120 pages
Hardcover
New York: 1905

Price: $250.00

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Item #1552 A New Edition of the Mount Omei Illustrated Guide (1936). Dryden Linsley Phelps, Huang...

A New Edition of the Mount Omei Illustrated Guide (1936)

Mt. Omei (also Emei) in China has been a major religious site and "holy mountain" for over fifteen hundred years. Early Western visitors wrote descriptions of their experiences with the site, but Dryden Phelps (Professor of English Literature at West China Union University) went much further and translated the Mount Emei Illustrated Handbook, a Chinese-language guide first published in 1891. This 1936 translation and "new edition" features the original Chinese text with an English translation and annotations below. The original woodblock plates from the original guide were destroyed or missing.....
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Holy Mountain Guide
West China Union University/Harvard Yenching Institute
7.25" x 12.75"
Unpaginated (354 pages), double-leaf pages
Traditional hand-stitched string binding with paper wraps
Chengdu, Sichuan, China: 1936

Price: $650.00

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