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New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday , 1961 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. Vintage reprint of classic travel book originally published in Alexandria in 1922 which included the first appearance in English of C.P.Cavafy's poem "The God Abandons Anthony" [p. 104 ] translated George Valassopoulos. 243p. maps. index. Neat, tight unmarked text, paper covers age toned, else fine.
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Alexandria : A History and a Guide. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell.
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Alexandria Illustrated
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Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 2004 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Written and photographed by Michael Haag.Alexandria has had a checkered history since its foundation by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. From its glorious days as the intellectual center of the Hellenistic and early Christian world, it declined into a near-forgotten backwater with a population of only a few thousand at the time of the French invasion of 1798. Renewed prosperity and commercial growth came in the nineteenth century under Muhammad'All. Today it is Egypt's second city and the favorite summer resort of millions of Egyptians. In this guide to one of the world's great cities, Michael Haag explores Alexandria's past and present in word and picture, from the ancient Pharos to the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, from Anfushi to Montazah. He directs our curiosity not only toward the ancient monuments of the city and its fine Greco-Roman Museum and new National Museum, but also to the ambience of a…
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Alexandreia
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Athens: Kathimerini Publications, 2011 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Greek Ed.. Cradle of Hellenism 2 - A series of books illustrating significant places in the Hellenic world. 128p. illus bibliography.
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Alexandria : The Sunken City
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. 27cm x 40 Cm. Lost in the fourth century AD when a series of earthquakes submerged it under the sea, Alexandria lived on in myth and legend. Now, the remains of the great city are being hauled to the surface and this book presents interviews with archaeologists working at the site and some expedition photographs.8p. illus (col) map. diagrams. NOTE : Heavy [1.3 kg] large format volume [30x27x2 cm] .
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Balthazar
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London: Faber, 1969 Book. Very Good +. Trade Paperback. Reprint. The second part of the Alexandria Quartet. Vintage pbk edition Crisp tight copy. Paper sunfaded along spine,, else near fine.
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Cavafy's Alexandria
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy"s literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 224p. bibliography.index.
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Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
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Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy' literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 196p. bibliography.index.
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Clea (Giant Cardinal edition)
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New York: Pocket Books, 1961 Book. Very Good +. Pbk. First Thus. Part four of the Alexandria Quartet. An original vintage paperback edition 280p. crisp tight copy, age toned paper, stamp on ffep, else near fine,.
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London: Faber, 1969 Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Reprint. The first part of the Alexandria Quartet. Vintage pbk edition NeaT tight copy. Previous owner's name on ffep.
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The Vanished Library : A Wonder of the Ancient World
by Canfora, Luciano
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Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1990 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st US Edition. Series: Hellenistic Culture & Society Vol. 7). "The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt...had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written under one roof.... But what was the library, and where was it? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory. Luciano Canfora ...recreates the world of Egypt and the Greeks in brief chapters--Anecdotes, conversations, and reconstructions[based] on historical and literary sources in this elegant piece of historical detective work. Originally published as "La biblioteca scomparsa. Palermo."1987.Translated into English by Martin Ryle. ix, 205p, illus index..
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