Item 0003 (2058) - "C. P. Cavafy Poems"

29.5 x 18.5 cm

Cavafy's poetry collection containing 57 poems of the 1912-1920 period. A piece of paperboard folded in half is used as front and back covers. On the cover, the printed title: "C. P. Cavafy Poems. Alexandria 1912-1920". The original date "1919" has been corrected by Cavafy to "1920", in ink.
On the inside, printed title page repeating the details on the cover. The end date was originally printed "19" and handwritten "16"; it was corrected by hand to "1920". Two blank sheets follow. On the recto of the first sheet, the handwritten note: "Missing: As Much As You Can 7[.] Imenus 56". The printed broadsheets containing the poems follow, numbered at top right of the recto (1 to 59 – sheets 7 and 56 are missing). The numbering is mostly printed, in a few instances handwritten, and in some it has been corrected by hand. The verso of all broadsheets is blank. The poems are followed by a blank sheet and printed table of contents in chronological order, in two columns. The contents page is part of the sheet also containing the title page. The poem titles are preceded by a mark in pencil. The 1919 titles are crossed out, while three of them are handwritten. Two 1919 poem titles and a 1920 poem title are handwritten on the verso of the contents page and have been crossed out. The broadsheets were printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house (Alexandria) during the 1917-1920 period (five of them also mention the month of printing: two in July 1919, and one each in September 1919, December 1919 and March 1920).

Greek

Writing in ink. Oxidations and wears. Physical item wear: all sheets bear a hole from a staple in the top left.

"Philhellene" >Α127
"Herodes Atiicus" >A125
"Alexandrian Kings" >A129
"Come Back" >A131
"In the Church" >A227
"Very Rarely" >A132
"In Stock" >A133
"I Went" >A133
"The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian" >A135
"Tomb of Eurion" >A135
"Chandelier" >A137
"Far Off" >A152
"But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent" >Α385
"Theodotus" >A138
"In the Entrance of the Café" >Α152
"He Swears" >Α195
"One Night" >Α141
"Morning Sea" >Α141
"Painted" >Α141
"Orophernes" >Α142
"The Battle of Magnesia" >Α142
"Manuel Comnenus" >Α142
"The Seleucid's Displeasure" >Α142
"Whenever They Are Aroused" >Α145
"In the Street" >Α160
"In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion" >Α581
"In a City of Osrhoene" >Α152
"Passage" >Α160
"For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610" >Α160
"One of Their Gods" >Α160
"In Evening" >Α152
"To Pleasure" >Α164
"Gray" >Α147
"Tomb of Iases" >Α147
"In the Month of Hathor" >Α147
"I've Gazed So Much-" >Α147
"Tomb of Ignatius" >Α160
"Days of 1903" >Α160
"The Window of the Tobacco Shop" >Α249
"Caesarion" >Α160
"Remember, Body…" >Α153
"Tomb of Lanes" >Α153
"Comprehension" >Α153
"Nero's Deadline" >Α158
"Envoys from Alexandria" >Α162
"Aristobulus" >Α159
"Safe Haven" >Α159
"Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D." >Α162
"Since Nine" >Α162
"Below the House" >Α163
"The Next Table" >Α163
"The Afternoon Sun" >Α164
"To Stay" >Α232
"Of the Jews (50 A.D.)" >Α165
"Aboard the Ship" >Α179
"Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.)" >Α167
"If Indeed He Died" >Α171

Cavafy, C. P.. “C. P. Cavafy Poems”. Poems (collection), 1912-1920. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F02-SF003-0003 (2058), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF01-S01-F02-SF003-0003.

Collection Γ3.