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Printed eight-page pamphlet with the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians". The first page serves as a front cover. The poem title at top left; the name of the Lagoudakis printing house and the year of publication at bottom right. The text of the poem occupies pages 3 to 5. The poet's signature and the indication "December 1898" in the lower part of the fifth page. Pages 2 and 6 to 8 are blank. Accompanied by 19 copies, one of which has a front cover of paperboard.

Receipts and invoices regarding the funeral of Charikleia Cavafy. Printed invoice from the Greek Community of Alexandria for funeral and burial expenses. Handwritten receipt for the payment of the priests who accompanied the funeral, on the first page of a bifolio; the second and third pages are blank; arithmetic operations and notes by Cavafy in the last page. Handwritten receipt for the payment of funeral expenses. Printed invoice from the funeral home ("Société des Pompes Funèbres d'Alexandrie"). Printed invoice from a marble scuplting workshop and printed invoice from a lithography house. Printed invoice from the newspaper La Réforme.

Printed four-page pamphlet with the poem "Prayer" on the third page. The date "July 1896" and the signature "Const. Cavafy" below the poem. In the first page, the poem title, place indication (Alexandria), the name of the Lagoudakis printing house and the date inside a border. The second and fourth pages are blank.

Manuscript of a poem and attached handwritten note. The poem "Death of a General" as well as notes on the margin, cancellations and emendations on the recto of a ruled sheet. The title has been underlined and there is a line in red ink below the poem. On the verso, part of the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians», a note with the title and a reference regarding its publication (Lagoudakis publishing, Alexandria 1904). The text on the verso has been crossed out. The handwritten note "Not for publication. But may remain here" on a separate piece of paper attached to the sheet.

Printed poetry collection of Cavafy, published in 1904 in Alexandria at the Lagoudakis printing house. It contains 14 poems and comprises 34 pages, of which 3 (actual numbering: 5) to 26 are numbered. Two copies.

Printed poetry collection by Cavafy (Β2). On the paperboard cover, the title "C. P. Cavafy Poems" and the indication "Alexandria 1910". The word "Poems", in the centre of the first page. The collection contains twenty-one poems. Page numbers are indicated ("3" to "39") at centre bottom of the sheets. Handwritten emendations by Cavafy in some of the poems (pages "12, 20, 23, 29, 31-32, 36"). The table of contents and the last blank page are missing; the verso of the latter bore the details of the printing house (Kasimatis & Ionas). The bifolio constituting the front and back covers has been detached. The book is accompanied by two Press clippings. One is from the Tachydromos of Alexandria, dated 13/4/1958, and contains an article by Manolis Gialourakis, entitled "Perimenontas tous varvarous. Ligoselidi syllogi tou C. P. Cavafy", pertaining to the poetry collection of 1904. The other clipping, from the newspaper Vima, dated 10/10/1968, contains an article by G. N. Kranidiotis entitled "Anekdota poiimata tou Cavafy".

Four-page printed pamphlet with the poem “Waiting for the Barbarians”. The first page serves as front cover. The title of the poem is on top left, the brand name of the Lagoudakis printing house along with the year of publication is on the bottom right. At the bottom of the fifth page, the poet’s signature and the indication “December 1898”.

Two-page printed leaflet with the poem “Prayer” on the third page. On the first page, the title of the poem, place indication (Alexandria), the name of the Lagoudakis printing house and the date inside a border. On the second page, the poem is printed with the indication “July 1896” and the signature “Const. Cavafy” underneath.