C. P. Cavafy,
Archive published 2019 via Onassis Foundation Cavafy Archive
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.