Passions Ancient Days New Poems by Cavafy C P (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 64 pages, book in near fine condition (ink gift inscription on front free end-paper) with very good dust-wrapper (price clipped, slightly marked).

Condition: very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustwrapper. First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. Paypal accepted. Selected and translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis.

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.).

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (poetry) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

8vo. pp.64.Red papered hardcover. Very Good in slightly soiled dust jacket.

VG+, unmarked hardback; owner's name; DJ-VG. [Greek & English] xxiii + 68 pp.

First edition. 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in gray buckram over pale tan paper covered boards, in a Fine price-clipped dustwrapper, slight wear to crown. 68pp. Greek and English texts facing. Q18245.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Impression. A Fine copy in red textured paper covered boards, in a Fine white dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Erasure from top of front endpaper. Selected and Translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. 64pp. with Notes at end. English only. Q10284.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A Fine copy in gray buckram over pale tan paper covered boards, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped.68pp. Greek and English texts facing. Q03716.