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Chess, the game of life; showing different versions of what Omar Khayyam had to say in his Rubaiyat;

Title: Chess, the game of life; showing different versions of what Omar Khayyam had to say in his Rubaiyat; with an introduction by Gordon Keith Stover.
Author: Omar Khayyam
Publication: Collingswood, N.J., W.L. Washburn, 1936.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KVM ('Omar Khayyam. Chess, the game of life)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

51 l.; 7.5 x 5.5 cm.

Subject

Persian literature > Poetry

Note

Colophon: Here ends "Chess the game of life," finished in October, 1936, in an edition of 64 copies. I am indebted to Miriam Tindall Smith for the cover design, and to C.W. Walton, Monroe, N.C., Frank Ankenbrand, jr., and Gordon Keith Stover, of Philadelphia, for valuable assistance in gathering material.
Collection of many renderings of Omar's chess quatrain.

Numbering (note)

Call Number

*KVM ('Omar Khayyām. Chess, the game of life)

OCLC

4926744

Author

Omar Khayyam.

Title

Chess, the game of life; showing different versions of what Omar Khayyam had to say in his Rubaiyat; with an introduction by Gordon Keith Stover.

Imprint

Collingswood, N.J., W.L. Washburn, 1936.

Numbering

Printed on double leaves folded in Chinese style.

Local Note

This copy is no. 10 [Signed] William Lewis Washburn.

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Washburn, William Lewis, 1862- Compiler

Ankenbrand, Frank, 1905-1972. Checkmate.

Stover, Gordon Keith.

Research Call Number

*KVM ('Omar Khayyām. Chess, the game of life)