Passions Ancient Days by C P Cavafy (22 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.).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Ancient Greek and English text. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked.

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.

paperback. Condition: fine copy. First pbk printing. digest-size wraps w/ illus cover , $1.95 on front; 68 pgs w/ 15-pg intro by trans; bi-lingual text w/ notes. translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. quotes by Richard Howard & C.M.Bowra on back cover.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Translated by Edmund Keeley by George Savadis. Greek with facing English translation. Soft cover. xxiii, 68 pp. Sunned to extremities with offset panel to front cover. The Alexandrian Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is internationally regarded as a major writer.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First printing. Cloth, small octavo. xxII, 68 pages. Poems translated and edited by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector. All books shipped in boxes.

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.

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

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: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A collection of poems. Translated from the Greek and introduced by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. Stated first printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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: 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 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.

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.

First US edition. xxiii + 68 pp w/notes. Bookplate inside the front cover, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Original Greek poems selected and with facing English translations by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis, with their introduction.