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Notice sur les bains de mer et des limans ou lacs de Odessa
par le docteur P.C. Hepites
Odessa de l'Impremerie de la Ville

Notice on Sea bathing and Lagoons or Lakes of Odessa
by doctor P.C. Hepites

Dr. Walter's Music Magazine at the Club, 1829
Without any Binding
8vo

C. P. Cavafy's first publication of the poems:
Γκρίζα - Griza - Grey
Ιασή Τάφος - Iasi Tafos - Tomb of Iases
Εν τω μηνί Αθύρ - Εn to mini Athyr -- In the month of Athyr
Έτσι πολύ ατένισα - Etsi poly atenisa - So long I gazed
in the
Literary Magazine
ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ - GRAMMATA - LETTERS (Alexandria)
Volume IV, leaflets 37
Editor & Director Stefanos Pargas

Printed by Kasimatis in Alexandria in 1917
8vo
Pamphlet 37
January-May 1917, p. f+200+f. 2 advertisements
Original Paper Binding
First Edition

Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (1863 – 1933), known as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria in Egypt. His work, as one translator put it, holds the historical and the erotic in a single embrace. He is known for his prosaic use of metaphors, his brilliant use of historical imagery, and his aesthetic perfectionism. These attributes, amongst others, have assured him an enduring… Read More

ARTHUR COHEN
A Memoir by his Daughter to his Descendants
(Lucy Cohen)
Bickens & Son, London in 1919
First Edition
Signed and dedicated by his daughter Margaret Morison to Lady Edward Fitzgerald Law
Large 8vo
In Original Hard Binding
Pages: vi, 214 p., [9] p. of plates
Arthur Allen Cohen (1928 – 1986) was an American scholar, art critic, theologian, publisher, and author.
Sir Edward Fitzgerald Law (1846 – 1908) was a British diplomat and expert in state finance. Law first went to Greece in 1892, and presided over the finances of Greece, restructuring the Greek debt and the nation's economy, to the lasting advantage of Greece. The Greek treasury had been depleted by over-spending and systemic corruption often caused by political campaigns in which parties promised massive spending programmes. The reformist Prime Minister, Charilaos Trikoupis (Χαρίλαος Τρικούπης, 1832-1896), stood before parliament and made the most famous statement of his career: 'Regretfully, we are bankrupt'… Read More

Κώστας Ταχτσής
Καφενείο Βυζάντιο κι άλλα διηγήματα
Kafenio Vyzantio kai alla diigimata
Costas Taktsis
Cafe Byzantium and Other Stories
Illustrations by Greek Artist Alexis Aktithakis
Published by Ermeias, Athens in 1972
First Edition (It was in 1956 published in the Magazine Tram in 1956 but here the First Edition in Book Form)
Original Paper Binding
Pages 64
24cm x 17cm (approx. 9,5inch. x 6,8inch.)
Language: Greek
Costas Taktsis (1927 - 1988) was a Greek writer. Described as a 'Landmark of post-war literature in Greece.
Alexis Akrithakis (1939–1994) was a Greek contemporary artist renowned for his paintings and wooden constructions. His works have been described as "speaking an unmistakable language. They stand on their own and are original, but are yet influenced by the particular Zeitgeist - between Arte Povera and Actioninsm".