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$35.00Miami: Guevara Press, 1973. First edition. 57 pp w/index. Some light uneven sunning to covers, else near fine in printed wrappers. Original Greek poems with facing English translations by Robert Zaller. Errata slip tipped-in at the rear of the volume.$25.00London: Hogarth Press (1984). First printing of this trade paperback edition. xv + 205 pp w/short bibliography & index of titles. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. One hundred and seventy-four poems, the canon with a few not published during Cavafy’s lifetime.$600.00Woodside: Occasional Works, 1991. First edition. 22 pp. Fine in half leather and cloth over boards in fine publisher's slipcase. One of 65 numbered copies on Arches Velin SIGNED by William Brice who illustrated these 11 Cavafy poems with four original etchings. Translations by Alan Boegehold. Fine. Prospectus available upon request.$40.00NY: Dial Press (1971). 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.$25.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1972). First edition. ix + 97 pp w/notes. Previous owner’s name inked to the first leaf, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.$25.00NY: Knopf, 2009. First US edition. xviii + 121 pp w/notes, appendix, & index of titles. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small tear and wrinkle to lower flap fold. Translated from the original Greek, with an introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn.
$750.00Helsinki: Eurographica (1972). First edition. 50 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Edited by Rolando Pieraccini. One of 350 numbered copies on special Michelangelo Paper SIGNED by Elytis. Contemporary Poets in Signed Limited Editions 1. Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979.$25.00Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1974). First edition. vii + 200 pp w/notes & bibliography. Soiling to fore-edge and verso of last unprinted leaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light soiling to rear panel. Translated with an introduction and notes by Kimon Friar.$20.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1981). First trade paperback printing. x + 203 pp w/notes & index. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers. All poems translated from the original Greek by Keeley and Sherrard, with their introduction.
$35.00NY: Grossman (1968). First US edition. [48 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine and extrems. Merchant introduces and translates George Seferis, Andreas Embiricos, Oddyseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos, Takis Sinopoulos, and Eleni Vakalo.$15.00NY: Pella Publishing Company, 1979. First edition. 110 pp. Small spot on fore-edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art and internal drawings by George Fokas. Original Greek poems with English translations by Apostolos N. Athanassakis.$20.00NY: Ecco (1985). First US edition. 200 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine, edging to front and rear panels. Translated from the original Greek by Edmund Keeley.$20.00Brockport: BOA Editions, 1989. First trade paperback printing. xxii + 486 pp w/index of published and unpublished works. Spine sunned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Greek, and edited by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades.$75.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1995). First printing of this revised edition. xix + 296 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Greek, edited, and introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Promotional flyer laid in.$35.00London: Bodley Head (1967). First UK edition. x + 196 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Introduction by Rex Warner. Translated from the original Greek by Rex Warner and Th. D. Frangopoulos.$12.50Brighton: Owl Publishing (2014). First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems in Greek with facing English translation. Introduction by Helen Nickas.$20.00St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press (1983). First edition. 169 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Original Greek poems with facing translations by Philip Grundy.$25.00San Francisco: City Lights Books (1990). First edition. 88 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Poems translated from the original Greek. Dated (Berkeley 6/6/90) and INSCRIBED by Valaoritis to poet Leslie Scalapino.$20.00Athens: Efstathiadis Group, 1984. First edition. 125 pp. A few pale droplet marks on the title page, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$20.00Stratford: Mercury Press (1994). First edition. 143 pp w/bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers. Appearances by Durrell, Auden, Cavafy, Spender, MacLeish, Eliot, Forster, and several others.