signed first edition Hardcover
1926 · Postdam
by H.W. Nordmeyer; Edward Fitzgerald; Umar Hayyam
Postdam : Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limitation of 500, this #217 signed by Heinrich Waldemar Nordmeyer. With the bookplate of C.G./C. P. Lowe . Pastepaper over boards with printed paper label. Text in German. One hundred one quatrains from FIrzgerald's Fifth Edition with preface and notes. Potter 467. Born 1891 in Germany, by 1913 Nordmeyer is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin, working in academia, translation and proofing throughout the 1920s and 30s, acting as Professor and chair at NYU and U Michigan. (Inventory #: 2212)