ELYTIS, Odysseus.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Selected Poems. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title in Greek, "For Stathis and Ralph with lots of love, Elytis". The US edition slightly precedes the UK edition, published by Anvil Press.The recipients were the couple Ralph Sylvester and Stathis Orphanos, founders of the publishing house Sylvester & Orphanos which specialized in limited edition fine press books, including works by Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal, and V. S. Naipaul. Elytis contributed an essay to their volume on the gay Greek artist Yannis Tsarouchis, The Face of Modern Greece (2004).

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