Decavalles Adonis and Spanos Bebe (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. First Edition. SUBTITLED: ` An Anthology of Cypriot Literature '. 190 pages plus contributors list. Illustrated with decorative b/w drawings Section of b/w Cypriot artifact photos at center. Approx. 40 individual pieces of writing. slightly more than the first quarter are poems. Read pieces by; Theo Stavrou, Hebe Meleagrou, and Tefcros Anthias. Sometimes the original in Greek script is offered. Cond : Boards are grey-buff in colour with gilt lettering - spine only. End-papers are white. D.J. is reddy-orange with white lettering. No d.j. graphics. D.J. is rubed and worn esp. at the corners. Not price-clipped. Volume is tight, bright, square, and clean. No names, no marks. Very good copy of a not common book. Quote (p. 141) (from `Without Luggage' by Christakis Georghiou) : " The silence in the room settles uneasily on everything, on everyone. The two men drink, they lick their lips from time to time, but in spite of their apparent calm they are two parts of a huge, wrathful wave that swells their lungs and crashes on the rock of their lips and eyes. Annie feels naked. Their eyes ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. B/W Drawings and Photographs (illustrator). …