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- 1917-1920 (Creation)
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25 x 16 cm
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Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ4) comprising 26 poems. Cover of paperboard and title page, both bearing the printed title "C. P. Cavafy Poems (1908-1914)". 28 broadsheets follow, printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in Alexandria in the period 1917-1920; one blank sheet. There is no table of contents or back cover. All sheets are loose and have a hole from a metal paperclip at the top left of the recto. Handwritten emendations by Cavafy in two poems and in the original numbering of many sheets.
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Greek
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Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations; holes.
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"The City" >Α107
"The Satrapy" >Α108
"Ides of March" >Α111
"Finished" >Α112
"The God Abandons Antony" >Α116
"Monotony" >Α98
"Ithaca" >Α122
"As Much As You Can" >Α133
"The Glory of the Ptolemies" >Α121
"Alexandrian Kings" >Α129
"Philhellene" >Α127
"The Steps" >Α106
"Herodes Atticus" >Α125
"Sculptor from Tyana" >Α114
"The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian" >Α135
"Tomb of Eurion" >Α135
"That Is He" >Α104
"Dangerous" >Α123
"In the Church" >Α227
"Very Rarely" >Α132
"In Stock" >Α133
"Song of Ionia" >Α46
"Come Back" >Α131
"Far Off" >Α152
"I Went" >Α133
"Chandelier" >Α137
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Cavafy, C. P.. “C. P. Cavafy Poems (1908-1914)”. Poems (collection), 1917-1920. GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F27-0003 (2104), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds (Post-2012 Acquisitions). From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF03-F27-0003.
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- Publication
- Poems (collection)
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Far Off"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Alexandrian Kings"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The God Abandons Antony"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Come Back"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "I Went"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Tomb of Eurion"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Glory of the Ptolemies"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The City"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Satrapy"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Ithaca"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Song of Ionia"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Herodes Atticus"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Ides of March"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Monotony"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Very Rarely"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Chandelier"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In the Church"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "As Much As You Can"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Philhellene"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Steps"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Dangerous"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Finished"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In Stock"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Sculptor from Tyana"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "That is He"
- Poem (printed)
- Loose prints
- Broadsheet
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- Cavafy, C. P. (Authority)
- Kasimatis & Ionas Press (Subject)