Item 0001 (1912) - "C. P. Cavafy Poems"

30.5 x 19 cm

Purchased item.

Cavafy's poetry collection (Γ5). Bifolio of paperboard, which also serves as a folder , in lieu of a front and back cover. On another bifolio, made of paper, the title page and the table of contents (on the last two pages). On the first page of both bifolios, the title of the collection: "C. P. Cavafy Poems", and the indication "Alexandria 1915-1925". The last date is written by the poet. On the last page of the paper bifolio, handwritten dedication by Cavafy to A. Vlachopoulos. A blank sheet follows; eighty-four loose broadsheets and another blank sheet, all initially bound with paperclip, as indicated by the holes at top left of each sheet. At top right of the recto of the broadsheets, sequential printed numbering ("2" to "76"), occasionally corrected by the poet. Between sheets "17" and "18", inserted sheet with polygraphed typewritten translation of the poem "One of Their Gods" by G. Valassopoulo, with notes by Cavafy. The poems are printed on papers of various qualites and with fonts of various sizes, on paper of the Kasimatis & Ionas and Mitsanis printing houses dating to the period 1919-1925. Table of contents with poem titles in chronological order, in two columns. The last three titles on the first page of the contents are handwritten by Cavafy, as are all the titles on the second page. Handwritten emendations in two of the poems.

Greek

Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations; holes.

"But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent" >A385
"Theodotus" >A138
"He Swears" >A195
"One Night" >A141
"Morning Sea" >A141
"Painted" >A141
"Orophernes" >A142
"The Battle of Magnesia" >A142
"Manuel Comnenus" >A142
"The Seleucid's Displeasure" >A142
"Whenever They Are Aroused" >A145
"In the Street" >A160
"In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion" >A581
"In a City of Osrhoene" >A152
"Passage" >A160
"For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610" >A160
"One of Their Gods" >A160
"In Evening" >A152
"To Pleasure" >A164
"Gray" >A147
"Tomb of Iases" >A147
"In the Month of Hathor" >A147
"I've Gazed So Much-" >A147
"Tomb of Ignatius" >A160
"Days of 1903" >A160
"The Window of the Tobacco Shop" >A249
"Caesarion" >A160
"Remember, Body…" >A153
"Tomb of Lanes" >A153
"Comprehension" >A153
"Nero's Deadline" >A158
"Envoys from Alexandria" >A162
"Aristobulus" >A159
"Safe Haven" >A159
"Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D." >A162
"Since Nine-" >A162
"Below the House" >A163
"The Next Table" >A163
"The Afternoon Sun" >A164
"To Stay" >A232
"Of the Jews (50 A.D.)" >A165
"Imenus" >A165
"Aboard the Ship" >A179
"Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.)" >A167
"If Indeed He Died" >A171
"Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.)" >A171
"That They Come-" >A179
"Darius" >A344
"Anna Comnena" >A241
"Byzantine Noble, in Exile, Versifying" >A179
"Their Beginning" >A201
"Favour of Alexander Balas" >A181
"Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander: Poet in Commagene: 595 A.D." >A191
"Demaratus" >A192
"I Brought to Art" >A181
"From the School of the Renowned Philosopher" >A191
"Maker of Wine Bowls" >A581
"Those Who Fought on Behalf of the Achaean League" >A222
"For Antiochus Epiphanes" >A364
"In Despair" >A581
"Julian, Seeing Indifference" >A386
"Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene" >Α620
"Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)" >Α249
"Julian in Nicomedea" >Α225
"Before Time Could Alter Them" >Α225
"He Came to Read-" >Α234
"In 31 B.C. in Alexandria" >Α234
"John Cantacuzenus Triumphs" >Α249
"Temethus, an Antiochene: 400 A.D." >Α255
"Of Colored Glass" >Α259
"The 25th Year of His Life" >Α259
"On the Italian Seashore" >Α259
"In the Boring Village" >Α309
"Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes" >Α281
"In the Entrance of the Café" >Α368

"In an Old Book"> Α216

Cavafy, C. P.. “C. P. Cavafy Poems”. Poems (collection), 1919-1925. GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F32-0001 (1912), 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-F32-0001.