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