Passions and Ancient Days new poems by Cavafy, C. P., translated and introduced by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis - 1971

London: Hogarth (1972). Hardback in fine condition.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First edition, 1971. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 68 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good price-clipped dust jacket, ink inscription on the first blank, light creasing to the tips of some pages, minor soiling and wear to the covers, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket including a small sticker ghost on the front panel, edgewear to the dust jacket including creasing, tearing, and a bit of loss. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.

New York: The Dial Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches; 68 pages .

London England: The Hogarth Press Ltd. 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.) . Very Good. Cloth. First… Read More

London: Hogarth Press, 1972 Book. Illus. by Trans. Edmund Keeley and George Savvides. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed... "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" Translated and Introduced By Edmund Keeley & George Savidis) Donor inscription on ffep, else as new..

The Hogarth Press, London, 1972. 8vo. pp.64.Red papered hardcover. Very Good in slightly soiled dust jacket.