Passions Ancient Days Twenty New by Cavafy (5 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).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. Paypal accepted. Selected and translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition (1972.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 109 pages. The book is in very good condition. Interior is clean and tight. Some white out used on top front free endpaper (to remove previous owner's name?) The dust jacket is in good condition with some slight shelf wear and slight staining to covers. White spine/Red-Black text. Size: 8vo. Poetry.

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. 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.