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12 CARNEVALI, Emanuel. A Hurried Man. Paris: Contact Editions, [1925] “Too quick for life” First and sole edition of the only published lifetime work by Italian-born poet Emanuel Carnevali (1897–1942), issued in Paris by Robert McAlmon’s Contact Editions. It is extremely uncommon on the market, an online search of institutional libraries showing Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast only in the UK. After moving to the United States in 1914 at the age of 16, Carnevali became friends with poets such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound and his poems were published in the magazine Poetry , which was founded in 1912. Williams was dogged by ill health and returned to Italy in 1922, where he died 20 years later. Octavo. Uncut in original orange wrappers with flaps, lettered in black. A fine copy, the wrappers sharp, internally crisp. £1,000 [147824] 13 CATHER, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927 An exceedingly bright copy of the signed limited issue First edition, first impression, number 45 of 50 copies on japon, signed by the author and issued in a deluxe full vellum binding, this example in extraordinarily bright condition with the original slipcase. This major modernist novel was included in Modern Library’s list of 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
There were three issues of the book: 50 copies on japon, 175 copies on rag paper, and 20,000 trade copies. The novel was first published serially in Forum between January and June 1927. Octavo. Original cream parchment boards, lettering to spine in gilt, decorations to spine and front cover in gilt, publisher’s device to rear cover in gilt, top edge gilt, many gatherings unopened. Publisher’s green card slipcase with paper label to spine. Housed in a custom brown morocco-backed folding box. Spine very slightly bumped and toned; a near-fine copy. Slipcase a little worn and slightly soiled. ¶ Crane A16.a.i. £10,000 [152967] 14 CAVAFY, C. P. Poiemata (“Poems”) (1905–1915) and (1916–1918). Alexandria: Typographica Katastemata Kasimate & Iona, [printed c.1925–1930, assembled and issued c.1930] With a significant authorial correction to two lines of the poem “to sensual pleasure” An excellent example of one of Cavafy’s carefully assembled poetry collections, privately printed at Cavafy’s expense and arranged by the poet himself, here unusually copious with two volumes comprising 68 poems in all (40 in the first, 28 in the second). There are 23 hand corrections to the pagination, and a meaningful textual alteration to the poem “Hedone” (“To Sensual Pleasure”), in Cavafy’s hand. C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) lived for the best part of his 70 years in Alexandria. The city’s cosmopolitan citizenry, his “exiled” lifestyle there, and his pride in his Phanariot descendance all undoubtedly influenced the “cultural hybridism” of Cavafy’s corpus (Charalambidou-Solomi, p. 123). During his lifetime he was largely ignored by the Athenian literary world, due to his frank treatment of homosexual themes and epigrammatic style. An essay by his great admirer E. M. Forster, “The poetry of C. P. Cavafy”,
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