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Constantine Peter Cavafy (1863-1933)

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30.07.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 381361
Lot 153 | Constantine Peter Cavafy (1863-1933)
CAVAFY, Constantine Peter (1863-1933). Ποιήματα [Poems 1910-1914; thus inscribed on cover by the author]. Alexandria: Th. Kasimati and K. Iona, 1912-1914.

Very rare original self-publication by the author of a selection of his individual poems printed on separate sheets gathered together for private circulation. The printed poems are (in order): The God Forsakes Antony (1912), Ionic (1913), Perilous Things (1913), The Daughter of the Ptolemies (1914), Ithaca (n.d.), Philhellene (1913), Herod Atticus (1913), Alexandrian Kings (1913), Come Back (1914), Very Seldom (1914), As Best You Can (n.d.), Of The Shop (n.d.), I Went (n.d.), Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias (1914), Tomb of Eurion (1914), Chandelier (1914) and In Church (1913). All of these are from his Poems 1905-1915, as listed in the 2007 Oxford bilingual edition of his poems.

17 sheets printed on rectoes only, octavo (various sizes ranging from 260 x 152mm to 210 x 140mm), bound using a contemporary paper fastener at top left-hand corner between 2 blank sheets (first poem with tiny amount of staining along right-hand edge, lower blank sheet with a tiny marginal chip and short tear, otherwise fine and clean). The whole loosely inserted in bifolium card wrappers (304 x 186mm, fold torn and almost entirely separated save for about 5mm at head of spine). Provenance: C.P. Cavafy (inscribed by the author in his hand in ink on upper cover).
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