Cavafy's Alexandria. Study of a Myth in Progress.

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. viii, [2], 196. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. In the yellow dustwrapper, printed in green and priced £7.50 to front flap. With chronological tables of composition and publication, principal settings of poems, map of the ancient world of Hellenism, bibliographical note, chapter notes, and indices.

Dust soiled to top edge, d/w minutely chipped to crown of spine, else Fine.

Alexandria as the literal, metaphoric, sensual, and mythical city. The first full length critical study of the great modern Greek poet and an in-depth examination of his special relationship to the city of his residence. "[A]s marvellous a guide to the imagined Alexandria as E. M. Forster's is to the real one." –Joseph Brodsky, New York Review of Books