NMLP P-023043 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04
The Axion Esti (Το Άξιον Εστί / To Axion Esti)
Odysseas Elytis · Ikaros (Ίκαρος), Athens · 1959
No U.S./UK book-club (BCE/BOMC) edition of this title exists — it is a Modern Greek literary work, so the usual book-club tells (blind-stamp on rear board, "Book Club Edition" on the flap, gutter-code dots) do not apply. The real trap is the opposite: Ikaros reprinted Το Άξιον Εστί continuously from the 1960s onward in near-identical format, so many later Ikaros printings look superficially like the first. Distinguish by the imprint/colophon date and any added reprint line; a copy with a later year, an ISBN (added only on much later printings), or a numbered "έκδοση" (edition) statement is not the 1959 first. On the English side, the London Anvil Press Poetry issue (from 1980) is a later reprint, not the first English — the 1974 University of Pittsburgh Press printing is the first English edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-023043 for "The Axion Esti (Το Άξιον Εστί / To Axion Esti)" by Odysseas Elytis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023043, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).