Edward Fitzgerald
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Willy Pogany SIGNED x3
Limited Edition #240/500

1930

Edward Fitzgerald

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1930.

Limited Edition: 750 copies for the England and 500 copies for the United States of which this is #240/500 of the American issue.

*Signed 3 times by Pogany: On limitation page and on the the original etching as per usual in this edition. This copy specially inscribed and signed by Pogany to the wife of Milton Getz, Estelle Getz.

Inserted is a handwritten letter gifting the volume to Estelle Getz from her friend Abraham Lehr. Lehr was a Hollywood executive and Vice-President of Samuel Goldwyn Productions (later MGM), before becoming a Hollywood agent. Lehr's wife, Anne Neill Lehr, started The Hollywood Guild Canteen with the help of Bette Davis (https://jhgraham.com/2023/07/02/the-hollywood-guild-canteen/).

Getz was a well known bibliophile in her own right and wife of banker Milton Getz. They went on to build the 'Getz House', one of the most famous mansions in Beverley Hills, later bought by William Randolph Hearst and actress Marion Davies. (https://scalar.usc.edu/hc/hugo-ballins-los-angeles/getz-house-about-this-commission-1)

105/8 x 83/8 inches

[1 blank leaf]+[1st title/Limitation page]+[Leaf with 1st Plate]+[1-171 including leaf with original signed etching and 12 plates tipped in]+[2 additional unnumbered leaves]+[1 blank leaf]. Complete.

• BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO
• 4 RAISED BANDS
• GOLD TOOLED SPINE
• GILT STAMPED EMBLEM TO COVER
• GILDED TOP PAGE EDGES WITH OTHER EDGES UNCUT
• VERY INTERESTING PROVENANCE
• SIGNED 3 TIMES AND INSCRIBED BY POGANY

Very Good. Wear to to exterior leather at edge and front joint, corners bumped, some browning to the edges of the uncut pages, an old auction description clipping tipped to the first blank (removable). Otherwise internally fine, clean and tight.

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