“C. P. Cavafy Poems” [1916-1926]

30.8 x 40.1 cm

Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ7) comprising 69 poems on 76 loose printed broadsheets. Double-sheet of paperboard in lieu of cover, with the printed title “C. P. Cavafy Poems. Alexandria 1916-1926” on its first page (the second date has been added by hand). A second double-sheet follows, the first page of which serves as the title page (the second date has been added by hand); the second page is blank; the last two pages contain the table of contents, arranged chronologically by year (1916-1926), with handwritten additions for the year 1926. A blank sheet follows, the 76 printed sheets, followed by one more blank sheet. The poems are numbered in print at top right, their numbering corrected in many instances by the poet. The sheets were printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in Alexandria (one was printed at the Mitsanis printing house). Additional information regarding the year in which they were first printed (1920-1926) is mentioned in some cases.

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Black and green ink. Thick and plain paper. Physical item wear: oxidations; tears in the double-sheets; holes in all sheets at the point of joining.

“Whenever They Are Aroused” >Α145
“In the Street” >Α160
“In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion” >Α581
“In a City of Osrhoene” >Α152
“Passage” >Α160
“For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610” >Α160
“One of Their Gods” >Α160
“In Evening” >Α152
“To Pleasure” >Α164
“Gray” >Α147
“Tomb of Iases” >Α147
“In the Month of Hathor” >Α147
“I’ve Gazed So Much-” >Α147
“Tomb of Ignatius” >Α160
“Days of 1903” >Α160
“The Window of the Tobacco Shop” >Α249
“Caesarion” >Α160
“Remember, Body…” >Α153
“Tomb of Lanes” >Α153
“Comprehension” >Α153
“Nero’s Deadline” >Α158
“Envoys from Alexandria” >Α162
“Aristobulus” >Α159
“Safe Haven” >Α159
“Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D.” >Α162
“Since Nine-” >Α162
“Below the House” >Α163
“The Next Table” >Α163
“The Afternoon Sun” >Α164
“To Stay” >Α232
“Of the Jews (50 A.D.)” >Α165
“Imenus” >Α165
“Aboard the Ship” >Α179
“Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.)” >Α167
“If Indeed He Died” >Α171
“Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.)” >Α171
“That They Come-” >Α179
“Darius” >Α344
“Anna Comnena” >Α241
“Byzantine Noble, in Exile, Versifying” >Α179
“Their Beginning” >Α201
“Favour of Alexander Balas” >Α181
“Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander: Poet in Commagene: 595 A.D.” >Α191
“Demaratus” >Α192
“I Brought to Art” >Α181
“From the School of the Renowned Philosopher” >Α191
“Maker of Wine Bowls” >Α581
“Those Who Fought on Behalf of the Achaean League” >Α222
“For Antiochus Epiphanes” >Α364
“In An Old Book” >Α216
“In Despair” >Α581
“Julian, Seeing Indifference” >Α386
“Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene” >Α620
“Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)” >Α249
“Julian in Nicomedea” >Α225
“Before Time Could Alter Them” >Α225
“He Came to Read-” >Α234
“In 31 B.C. in Alexandria” >Α234
“John Cantacuzenus Triumphs” >Α249
“Temethus, an Antiochene: 400 A.D.” >Α255
“Of Colored Glass” >Α259
“The 25th Year of His Life” >Α259
“On the Italian Seashore” >Α259
“In the Boring Village” >Α309
“Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes” >Α281
“Cleitus’s Illness” >Α282
“In a Municipality of Asia Minor” >Α275
“Priest of the Serapeum” >Α282
“In the Taverns-” >Α368