Cavafy C P Savidis George Edmund (21 results)

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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Passion and Ancient Days. 21 New Poems. Browning to edges of D/J. through age. Shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Constantine Cavafy's reputation as a poet is now internationally established. This book comprises twenty-one poems never previously published in English. The translators, in telling us how this came about, reveals Cavafy's tentativeness and scrupulousness in publishing work during his lifetime. They divide his poetry into 'historical, philosophical, erotic', and discuss the poems they have chosen under these three headings. Their versions of them do full justice to Cavafy's irony, his tenderness and to the increas64 pp. ingly simple language in which he voiced them. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 480 pages. 9.00x6.10x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge wear & creasing to corner. Anthology of poems, published and unpublished from Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), translated w/biographical notes. A voice of culture iin dedcline --- hence ours as well. Posthumous publication 2 years after poet's 40th birthday; this is the English rendition published w/o ISBN. 262 pgs w/poems in chronological order. Poems include "An Old Man", 1894: "At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent/ Over the table, an old man sits alone/ A newspaper in front of him/./ But so much thinking, so much remembering./ Makes the old man dizzy. He falls asleep/ His head resting on the cafe table"; "As Much As You Can", "Even if you can't shape your life the way you want/ . Do not degrade it by draggin it along/ To the daily silliness/ of social relations & parties/ Until it comes to seem a boring hang-over"; and, but not least, "Waiting of the Barbarians" (1898): "--- The barbarians are due here today/ ---". Fine copy with tired softcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Feb 1971 Dial Press stated 1st printing, with illustrated endpapers. Dampstain rippling and light sunning and soil on dj, soil/foxing on edge, else text clean, binding tight .

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. A very good copy of the first printing in original wraps (slight wear). Translated and introduced (with notes) by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. Bilingual edition (Greek/English texts en face). Designed by Richard Gabriel Rummonds.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Printing, so stated. Description: Dust jacket design by Richard Rummonds; the jacket design is also used on the endpapers. From the publisher's blurb: ''The discovery of new poems by a great poet thirty years after his death is 'archaeological' in its unexpected delight. Such as experience is exotic in the highest sense -- as in the reading experience offered here. Unlike most poetry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cavafy's work is totally stripped of simile and metaphor. The poems offered here, n the most successful translation of Cavafy to date and the first collection to appear with facing Greek text.'' BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with outer edges in beige paper; on the front cover this beige portion is blind stamped with the poet's name; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped. Illustrated endpapers. 8vo (8 inches tall). 68 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 205 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Another fine contrbution to the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, C.P. Cavafy's collected poems from1900-1945 being edited by George Savidis and translated from the original Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Published in 1975 in First Edition Thus Stated. Bilingual texts, original Greek on the left, English translation, facing. Imperial octavo hardcover format, oatmeal cloth over boards, rubbed gilt title over copper at spine. Very slight creasing to upper spine, else tightly bound, clean and unmarked of interior. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa, 99 years old, nearly blind, but still working, in this case on a new translation and with annotations, of Herodotus, his favorite historian. xvii [1], 2-451 [1] pp. and including a full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A superb copy, unclipped and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches; 68 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Green cloth spine with the author's name in Greek blind stamped to the fore-edge boards. Rubbing to the lettering along the spine, else an unmarked copy. Greek text with parallel English translation. Soiling to the dust jacket, with a closed tear to the spine. Publisher's price of $5.00 on the front flap. Transalated and introduced by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. ; 68 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The book is fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and two small stains to the front. Laid in is a "With Compliments" card signed by editor for Dial Press at the time, PEN America Executive Director and author Karen Kennerly.

paperback. Condition: Good. Cover/edges have light wear. Pages are clean/intact.