Cavafy Selected Translated Edmund Keeley (2 results)

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.).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.25 x 7.75in. x. 202pp. Bound with the original wraps in full calf with hand tooled ruling, gilt titling and decoration in emulation of Lawrence Durrell's titular quote 'You enter Greece as one might enter a dark crystal.' Signed by the master Athenian bookbinder, Andreas Ganiaris. Marbled endpapers. NEAR FINE in Fine textured slipcase. Spine ever so lightly tanned. As pictured.