Cavafy, C.P.; Daniel Mendelsohn, trans. — Collected Poems

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. For the Cavafy completist. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available currently. The collected poems of C.P. Cavafy, translated, and with commentary and an Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn. Reproduced photographs of both at title page. 624 pp. Blue card-stock wraps, nicks to spine bottom joint front and rear, else clean and tightly bound. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa, 99 years old, nearly blind, but was still working, in this case on a new translation and with annotations, of Herodotus, his favorite historian. He passed away on the 16th of September of 2015.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine