(czw-5) 1st American Edition stated (NOTE: References show 1895 for 1st American Edition.this is dated 14 years earlier.info welcome) - near Fine/no dust jacket - hardcover - Boston MA, Houghton Mifflin Co (on title page)/Houghton Osgood & Co (on cover), 1881 - 6 3/4" x 5 1/8" - gilt decorated brick colored cover - all edges red - text printed on one side - book is protected in plastic envelope - slightly frayed at top of backstrip - front endpaper loose - 78pp. poetry box #5

POETRY RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM