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8°, slightly later burgundy half morocco over marbled boards by Frederico d'Almeida, spine richly gilt with raised bands in three compartments, gilt letter, top edge rouged, other edges uncut, decorated endleaves, original printed wrappers bound in. Title page and text printed in black and brown. In very fine condition. No. 37 of 500 copies on "Mellotex" paper, numbered and signed by the author on the final (colophon) leaf. Author's signed and dated (11 January 1935) twelve-line presentation inscription to Silva Tavares on the recto of the first blank leaf: "Este exemplar // foi adquirido // pelo // Silva Tavares //Poeta que eu muito admiro // e // Amigo que muito estimo. // Com um grande abraço // do // Carlos // 1-11-935". Amorial bookplate of Silva Tavares. Small oblong printed paper book ticket of the binder Frederico d'Almeida in upper outer corner of verso of front free endleaf. 102 pp., (3 ll.), 1 plate. *** FIRST EDITION of a book which has had a number of later editions. The plate reproduces a portrait of the author by Eduardo Malta.The poet and sometime literary and art critic [José] Carlos Queiroz [Nunes Ribeiro (1907-1949)] received the Prémio Antero de Quental in 1935. He directed the reviews Panorama (1941) and Litoral (1944). Poet from an early age, his work is dispersed in various literary reviews, the most notable of which was Presença, to which he was one of the most frequent contributors; he served as a bridge between the modernist generation of Orpheu and that of Presença in general, and in particular between Fernando Pessoa and Presença. In the July 1936 issue (nº 48) he wrote a "Carta à memória de Fernando Pessoa". Other reviews in which the work of Carlos Queiroz appeared were Contemporânea, Cancioneiro (do Primeiro Salão dos Independentes), Momento, Sudoeste, Revista de Portugal, Cadernos de poesia, Aventura, and Variante.Among the illustrious clients of the binder Frederico d'Almeida were the Count of Barcelona and the exiled former King Umberto of Italy.Provenance: One of the most popular and prolific writers of the first half of the twentieth century, the poet, writer, and playwright João da Silva Tavares (Estremoz, 1893-Lisbon, 1964), wrote some 90 pieces for the theater, mostly in collaboration with others. He wrote the libretto for the opera D. João IV, performed at the Teatro São Carlos in 1940 as part of the celebrations to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Portuguese independence. See Grande enciclopédia, XXVIII, 897; also A. Leitão in Biblos, V, 297-8; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 463.*** See Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 395; João Bigotte Chorão in Biblos, IV, 502-3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 325-6. On the Lisbon binder / finisher Frederico d'Almeida, see Lima, Encadernadores portugueses, pp. 19-23. On the bookplate of Silva Tavares see Avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heráldicos 664 (cf. 665). Porbase locates two copies [searching under "Queiros"] both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one has the author's presentation inscription, but neither appears to be a special paper limited copy). Jisc repeats Oxford University only (apparently the trade edition). NUC: CU, MH.
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