Two copies of a poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ2). The title "C. P. Cavafy's Poems (1916-1918)" on the cover and title page. The collection contains twenty-eight poems and cosists of bound broadsheets, printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in the period 1926-1929. Table of contents on the recto of the last sheet. The verso of all sheets is blank. The sheets are numbered sequentially ("2" to "30") at top right of the recto, usually in print but occasionally corrected by Cavafy. The poems are printed on papers of various qualites and with fonts of various sizes. On the title page of the first copy, handwritten dedication by the poet to Tellos Agras. Cancellation and emendation by Cavafy in the poem "To Pleasure". Handwritten notes in pencil on the cover, underlinings and notes in the poems, some with references to publications by Dimaras, handwritten by Agras. The sheets have been detached. On the second copy, handwritten dedication by Marios Vaianos to Christos Angelomatis, dated "28.8.31". The broadsheets were printed during the period 1927-1930. It also contains an inserted sheet with the poem titles in two columns and in chronological order.
Cavafy, C. P.Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ10). The title "C. P. Cavafy's Poems (1905-1915)" on the cover and title page. Handwritten dedication by Marios Vaianos to Christos Angelomatis, dated "28.8.31", in the first blank page. Table of contents on two pages as well as inserted sheet with the poem titles in two columns and in chronological order, at the end. The collection contains forty poems, printed on papers of various qualites and with fonts of various sizes. The verso of all sheets is blank. The sheets are numbered sequentially ("2" to "46") at the top right of the recto, usually in print and occasionally by hand, corrected by Cavafy. Some of the poems and the table of contents were printed on broadsheets of the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in the period 1925-1930.
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