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SPECIAL LIST 142:
FIFTEEN BOOKS AND PERIODICALS
OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY
PORTUGUESE LITERATURE

MAY 2009

1. CHAGAS, João [Pinheiro]. Diário. Lisbon: Edições Rolim, 1987. Preface by João B. Serra. Colecção Raízes. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. lxi, 383 pp.; 337 pp.; (3 ll.), 274 pp.; (3 ll.), 290 pp. 4 volumes. $120.00
. .. .. .**Originally published 1929-1932, these diaries cover the years 1914 to 1921. Writer, politician, journalist and diplomat, the author was born in Rio de Janeiro to Portuguese immigrants in 1863, and died in Estoril, 1925. Educated in Lisbon, he went to Porto to follow a career in journalism, working for the daily Primeiro de Janeiro. Returning to Lisbon, he worked for the Correio da noite, O tempo, and O Dia. Back in Porto, he founded the newspaper República Portuguesa, in whose pages he vehemently attacked the monarchy, eventually spending 10 days in prison in 1891, then being sent to exile in Moçâmedes, Angola. Wasting little time there, he escaped to Paris in November 1891. By February 1892 he had returned to Portugal, avoiding the police during eight months of clandestine existence in Porto before being captured and sent to the fortress of São Miguel. In 1893 an amnesty was declared, and he returned to his old ways in Porto, but eventually had to go to Madrid. No matter where he resided, he continued to issue Republican pamphlets and expressed political views in newspapers, again spending time in prison in 1908. With the implementation of the Republic in 1910, he was named Minister to Paris, and served as Prime Minister of the constitutional government from 3 September to 12 November 1911. In 1915 he was newly named Prime Minister, but was wounded in an assassination attempt prior to taking up the post. Recovering, he was named Portuguese diplomatic representative to Paris, where he supported Portugal's entry into the First World War, joined Portugal's delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. Later he served as a member of Portugal's delegation to the League of Nations.
.. .. .*** See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 466-7; also Grande enciclopédia, XXI, 750.




2. CIDADE, Hernâni [António]. Luís de Camões: o lírico. Venda Nova: Livraria Bertrand, 1967. 8°, original printed wrappers. Light browning. Overall an uncut, partially unopened copy, in very good condition. Author's signed and dated presentation inscription on recto of initial blank leaf: "A Zezinha [?] e o Américo, // no Natal de 1967, // este peruíto magrinho // e sem asas pera voo alto, //como é natural nos pe- // rús, mas dado [illeg.] a // [illeg.] graças de de sem //pre, //o Hernani Cidade". 338 pp., (1 l.).        $125.00
. .. .. .**..Third edition, "revista e alterada".
. .. .. .**The author (Redondo 1887–Évora 1975) taught school in Coimbra, Leiria, Porto and Lisbon before moving on to an illustrious career in higher education at the Universities of Porto and Lisbon. Best known as an author of literary and cultural history, as well as literary biography, in his youth Cidade was linked to the modernist movement, having been involved with the reviews Águia and Seara Nova, among others. For a half century he was a major force in the cultural life of Portugal, collaborating in reviews such as those of the Faculdades de Letras of both Lisbon and Porto, newspapers, especially O Primeiro de Janeiro, as well as numerous collective projects, such as the Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira, and Dicionário de literatura. With Joaquim de Carvalho and Mário de Azevedo Gomes he edited the Diário liberal (Lisbon, 1934–1935); with Reynaldo dos Santos and Bernardo Marques he founded Colóquio–revista de artes e letras (1959–1970), and with Jacinto do Prado Coelho in 1971 Colóquio / Letras, these last two published by the Gulbenkian Foundation.
. .. .. .**Provenance: "Américo" is Américo Cortez Pinto (1896–1979), physician, writer, poet and historian, native of the freguesia de Cortes in the concelho de Leiria. We think "Zezinha" is probably his wife. Américo Cortez Pinto studied at Coimbra, interned at Leira, served as a parliamentary deputy, a member of the Lisbon municipal council, and inspector of health studies, among other posts. A contributor to literary reviews such as A Tradição, Contemporânea, A Galera, Letras e Artes, and Ícaro, of which he was one of the founders, along with Ernesto Gonçalves, Cabral do Nascimento, and Luís Vieira de Castro. In addition to a considerable output of poetry, prose, literary and historical works, he is best known for the polemical Da famosa arte da imprimissão: da imprensa em Portugal às cruzadas d'Além–Mar (1948), in which he defended the priority of Leiria in Portuguese Christian typography. While Chaves currently is agreed to have been the earliest Portuguese Christian printing site, Cortez Pinto's investigations and conclusions regarding the diffusion of printing in Africa and Asia by the Portuguese remain valuable. Hernani Cidade was one of Cortez Pinto's closest friends. Others were Afonso Lopes Vieira, Carlos Queiroz, Lino António, António José Saraiva, Sebastião Pestana, and Mário Saa. On Américo Cortez Pinto, see Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes in Biblos, IV, 179–80; also Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, III, 501–3; and Grande enciclopédia, VII, 818; Acualização III, 498.
. .. .. .*** See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 128; Maria de Lourdes Belchior in Biblos I, 1132–4; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 344–5; Grande enciclopedia VI, 751; Actualização III, 226. This title not in Orbis, which lists three other works by the author on Camões.
 
 
 

3. CIDADE, Hernâni [António]. Tendências do lirismo contemporâneo: do Oaristos" às "Encruzilhadas de Deus". Lisbon: Livraria Portugália, 1939. 8°, original printed wrappers. A bit "toasted", but overall a very good copy. Bookplate of Américo Cartez Pinto on recto of initial blank leaf. Stamped signature "A. Cortez Pinto" on title page. 130 pp., (2 ll., 1 blank l.).       $60.00
. .. .. .**Second edition "ampliada e acompanhada de uma antologia de poesia moderna". In a chapter titled "O interêsse pelo mundo exterior" there is a significant section on Fernando Pessoa and Mensagem (pp. 39-44), which is a rather early example of a favorable critical assessment, while the chapter, "Os poetas modernistas", besides dealing with Camilo Pessanha, Mário Sá Carneiro, António Botto, Almada Negreiros, José Régio, etc., also refers very favorably to Pessoa (p. 73). Also, on the first page of this chapter [67] the author recounts how in his student years in Lisbon (1909-1914), the verses sent from Macau by Camilo Pessanha were the center of attention in all the "tertúlias" of the cafés, sometimes recited in the trembling and timid voice of Fernando Pessoa. Pages 89-130 contain the anthology, including lyric poems by Eugénio de Castro, Guerra Junqueiro, António Nobre, João de Barros, Afonso Duarte, Afonso Lopes Vieira, Teixeira de Pascoais, João Osório de Castro, António Patrício, José Duro, Júlio Dantas, Jaime Cortesão, Américo Durão, Flor Bela Espanca, Fernanda de Castro, Camilo Pessanha, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, Côrtes Rodrigues, Luís de Mantalvor, José Régio, Casais Monteiro, Miguel Torga, Carlos Queiroz, António Botto, and Alberto de Serpa, among others.
. .. .. .**Hernâni Cidade (Redondo 1887–Évora 1975) taught school in Coimbra, Leiria, Porto and Lisbon before moving on to an illustrious career in higher education at the Universities of Porto and Lisbon. Best known as an author of literary and cultural history, as well as literary biography, in his youth Cidade was linked to the modernist movement, having been involved with the reviews Águia and Seara Nova, among others. For a half century he was a major force in the cultural life of Portugal, collaborating in reviews such as those of the Faculdades de Letras of both Lisbon and Porto, newspapers, especially O Primeiro de Janeiro, as well as numerous collective projects, such as the Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira, and Dicionário de literatura. With Joaquim de Carvalho and Mário de Azevedo Gomes he edited the Diário liberal (Lisbon, 1934–1935); with Reynaldo dos Santos and Bernardo Marques he founded Colóquio–revista de artes e letras (1959–1970), and with Jacinto do Prado Coelho in 1971 Colóquio / Letras, these last two published by the Gulbenkian Foundation.
. .. .. .**Provenance: Américo Cortez Pinto (1896–1979), physician, writer, poet and historian, native of the freguesia de Cortes in the concelho de Leiria. He studied at Coimbra, interned at Leira, served as a parliamentary deputy, a member of the Lisbon municipal council, and inspector of health studies, among other posts. A contributor to literary reviews such as A Tradição, Contemporânea, A Galera, Letras e Artes, and Ícaro, of which he was one of the founders, along with Ernesto Gonçalves, Cabral do Nascimento, and Luís Vieira de Castro. In addition to a considerable output of poetry, prose, literary and historical works, he is best known for the polemical Da famosa arte da imprimissão: da imprensa em Portugal às cruzadas d'Além–Mar (1948), in which he defended the priority of Leiria in Portuguese Christian typography. While Chaves currently is agreed to have been the earliest Portuguese Christian printing site, Cortez Pinto's investigations and conclusions regarding the diffusion of printing in Africa and Asia by the Portuguese remain valuable. Hernani Cidade was one of Cortez Pinto's closest friends. Others were Afonso Lopes Vieira, Carlos Queiroz, Lino António, António José Saraiva, Sebastião Pestana, and Mário Saa. On Américo Cortez Pinto, see Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes in Biblos, IV, 179–80; also Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, III, 501–3; and Grande enciclopédia, VII, 818; Acualização III, 498.
. .. .. .*** Bibliografia do Prof. Hernâni Cidade," in Misscelânea de estudos em honra do Prof. Hernâni Cidade 72. See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 128; Maria de Lourdes Belchior in Biblos I, 1132–4; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 344–5; Grande enciclopedia VI, 751; Actualização III, 226. Not located in Orbis.
 
 

Apparently the Author's First Separately Published Work

4. CIDADE, Hernâni [António]. Zara (Tempos de D. Dinis): Um acto em verso, repesentado pela primeira vez em Leiria, em récita a favor do cofre da Liga dos Amigos do Castelo, a 10 de Dezembro de 1915. Leiria: Tip. Leiriense, 1916. Large 8°, original grey wrappers (front wrapper illustrated; rear wrapper plain), a few small spots on front wrapper; three small holes near lower outer corner of rear wrapper. Page of printed music on verso of penultimate unnumbered leaf. A very good to fine copy. Author's signed presentation inscription on recto of initial blank leaf "Ao Américo Pinto // para o seu coração // de amigo, mais que // para  o seu superior //talento de poeta,// esta oferta amigo // do Hernani Cidade". (1 blank l.), 22 pp., (2 ll.).                   $600.00
. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this one act play in verse, including a cast list, and music by José Zúquete, by the 19 year old Hernâni Cidade (Redondo 1887–Évora 1975); this appears to be his earliest seperately published work. On the verso of the title page is a five member cast list. Stage design was by Narciso Costa.
. .. .. .**The author taught school in Coimbra, Leiria, Porto and Lisbon before moving on to an illustrious career in higher education at the Universities of Porto and Lisbon. Best known as an author of literary and cultural history, as well as literary biography, in his youth Cidade was linked to the modernist movement, having been involved with the reviews Águia and Seara Nova, among others. For a half century he was a major force in the cultural life of Portugal, collaborating in reviews such as those of the Faculdades de Letras of both Lisbon and Porto, newspapers, especially O Primeiro de Janeiro, as well as numerous collective projects, such as the Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira, and Dicionário de literatura. With Joaquim de Carvalho and Mário de Azevedo Gomes he edited the Diário liberal (Lisbon, 1934–1935); with Reynaldo dos Santos and Bernardo Marques he founded Colóquio–revista de artes e letras (1959–1970), and with Jacinto do Prado Coelho in 1971 Colóquio / Letras, these last two published by the Gulbenkian Foundation.
. .. .. .**Provenance: "Américo Pinto" is Américo Cortez Pinto (1896–1979), physician, writer, poet and historian, native of the freguesia de Cortes in the concelho de Leiria. He studied at Coimbra, interned at Leira, served as a parliamentary deputy, a member of the Lisbon municipal council, and inspector of health studies, among other posts. A contributor to literary reviews such as A Tradição, Contemporânea, A Galera, Letras e Artes, and Ícaro, of which he was one of the founders, along with Ernesto Gonçalves, Cabral do Nascimento, and Luís Vieira de Castro. In addition to a considerable output of poetry, prose, literary and historical works, he is best known for the polemical Da famosa arte da imprimissão: da imprensa em Portugal às cruzadas d'Além–Mar (1948), in which he defended the priority of Leiria in Portuguese Christian typography. While Chaves currently is agreed to have been the earliest Portuguese Christian printing site, Cortez Pinto's investigations and conclusions regarding the diffusion of printing in África and Asia by the Portuguese remain valuable. Hernani Cidade was one of Cortez Pinto's closest friends. Others were Afonso Lopes Vieira, Carlos Queiroz, Lino António, António José Saraiva, Sebastião Pestana, and Mário Saa. On Américo Cortez Pinto, see Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes in Biblos, IV, 179–80; also Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, III, 501–3; and Grande enciclopédia, VII, 818; Acualização III, 498.
. .. .. .*** Bibliografia do Prof. Hernâni Cidade," in Misscelânea de estudos em honra do Prof. Hernâni Cidade, 2 (item 1 is an article in Inquérito Literário, II, 268-81, published in 1915). See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 128; Maria de Lourdes Belchior in Biblos I, 1132–4; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 344–5; Grande enciclopedia VI, 751; Actualização III, 226; none of which mention Zara. Copy listed in Hollis sold by us in 2004; a search under Hernâni Cidade resulted in 50 "hits", the next earliest dated 1929. Not located in Orbis, where an author search turned up 35 "hits", the earliest dated 1929. Porbase lists two copies, one at Coimbra University (with presentation inscription to Pedro de Moura e Sá), and the other at the Biblioteca Nacional, both with collations of 22 pp., without mention of the initial blank or the final two unnumbered leaves.




5. Cronos. Cadernos de literatura. Nos. 1-4 and 2º série, nº 1 [a complete run]. Lisbon: Editorial Minerva, (1965-1970). Large 8° (numbers 1-4); 8º (2.ª série, number 1), contemporary red buckram, flat spine and front cover with gilt letter (numbers 1-4), original printed wrappers bound in; original printed wrappers (2.ª série, number 1). A very good set. Illustrated lithograph bookplate of A.[lfredo] Ribeiro dos Santos. 5 issues. ... $600.00
. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION, a COMPLETE RUN. The high points in this multifaceted literary review include, in the first issue, an essay by João Gaspar Simões on Orpheu and one by Herberto Helder on Brecht; in the second, a previously unpublished poem by José Régio and three poems by José Saramago (his earliest published work listed in NUC and BLC is Poemas possiveis, Lisbon [1966], while his next two published works listed in NUC appeared in 1970 and 1971), as well as an exposition on concrete poetry by E.M. de Melo e Castro, "A imagem poética e a posia actual" (pp. 11-9); in the third, Jacinto do Prado Coelho's "O Problema da sinceridade nos textos em prosa de Fernando Pessoa" and an essay by Fernando Luso Soares on Camus and Sartre; in the fourth, an essay by Mário Sacramento on António Sérgio, Y.K. Centeno on Lessing, and Afonso Cautela on the historical position of Surrealism. The final issue is devoted to the theater, with a brief theatrical piece by Mário Cesariny titled "O processo" (pp. 25-30), critiques of works by Gunter Grass, Samuel Beckett and Eça de Queiroz, and essays on various aspects of contemporary drama. Other contributors of note include David Morão-Ferreira, Virgilio Ferreira, Natália Correia, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, António Pedro, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Alexandre O'Neill, António Ramos Rosa, João Medina, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Tomaz Kim, and Alexandre Babo. Cronos was directed by Fernando Luso Soares, Mário Dias Ramos, Eduardo Prado Coelho and Mendes de Carvalho.
. .. .. .*** Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX, II, i., 192–4; Dicionário das revistas literárias portuguesas do século XX, pp. 121-2. Clara Rocha, Revistas literárias do século XX em Portugal, pp. 589-90; 667. Not located in ULS. OCLC: 4577299. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa. WorldCat locates copies at the New York Public Library, Brown University, Harvard University, Penn State, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Indiana University, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and Stanford University. Not located in COPAC.

With a Long Preface by Fernando Pessoa

6. KAMENEZKY, Eliezer. Alma errante, poemas. Lisbon: composto e impresso nas oficinas gráficas da Emprêsa do Anuário Comercial, 1932. 8°, original printed wrappers (sunning at bottom of upper wrapper; spine somewhat defective, especially at head). A good, uncut copy. Author's signed and dated presentation inscription on half title: "Ao // mui repeitavel // Dr. José Abuellos [?] // com Simpatia // ofereso // como lebransa // Eliezer Kamenezky // 15–6–1944". Frontisportrait of the author, after a painting by José Malhoa, (1 blank l.), 112 pp., (1 blank l.). $100.00
. .. .. .**FIRST EDITION. The preface (pp. 5-21) is by Fernando Pessoa. Sousa points out that here, as often elsewhere, Pessoa speaks more about his own ideas and obsessions than about those in the work he is supposed to introduce. "O facto de Eliezer Kamenezky ser um judeu russo exilado em Lisboa e, sobretudo, o facto de ele estar imbuído de 'um misticismo de judeu russo', leva-o desta vez à elaboração de um texto, aliás de grande riqueza especulativa e com largo leque referencial, onde, entre outros tópicos, se focalizam religião e mística, política e ideologias, cristianismo e judaismo, Maçonaria e Rosa-Cruz, tradição alquímica e Cabala" (Sousa).
. .. .. .*** Blanco PR 117. Fernando Pessoa: Fotobibliografia p. 203. NUC: WU, MH.

7. Lusitânia: documentário da vida portuguesa (mensário). Lisbon: Gráfica Boa Nova, Limitada, 1948. Large 8°, somewhat later quarter navy blue sheep over decorated boards (very minor rubbing), flat spine with gilt fillets and gilt letter, decorated endleaves, top edge tinted blue, original wrappers bound in. Illustrations. A very good copy. Bookplate of Aucindio Rodrigues da Silva, with motto "A verdade só". 138 pp., (1 l. advt.); (1 blank l.), 142 pp., (1 l. advt.). $700.00
. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION, a COMPLETE RUN. Only two numbers of this "monthly" review appeared, in May and July of 1948, respectively. Edited by António Martins da Cruz, with Alexandre Lobato as secretary and Folgado da Silveira as publisher, at the beginning of the first issue it is stated that the publication will focus on all problems of the nation, and its mission will be to "fazer a divulgação da língua e da literatura, da arte, da filosofia e da ciência, dos usos, costumes e tradições, e ao mesmo tempo interessar os seus leitores no conhecimento e no estudo das questões do progresso e da economia nacionais, os grandes problemas da terra e do homem, as grandes soluções valorativas da vida nacional, quanto à vida política, à vuda dis gryois sicuausm à educação, à cultura, à colonização, ao comércio, à indústria, à agricultura, etc." All this without favoring any political party!

. .. .. .**Of particular interest are essays by José Régio, "A literatura portugusa e o estrangeiro" (second issue, pp. 3-6); Jacinto do Prado Coelho, "Orientação da história literária em Portugal" (second issue, pp. 21-5); and António Quadros, "Para onde vai o romance contemporâneo?" (first issue, pp. 7-16). Ruy Medina writes on the aesthetics of ballet (first issue, pp. 76-82) and the opera of Wagner (second issue, pp. 74-85), Alexandre Lobato on "Problemas do nosso ultramar" (first issue, pp. 89-96 and second issue, pp. 104-10). There are a number of essays touching on Portuguese India, Moçambique, Angola, Guiné, Cabo Verde, and Brazil.
. .. .. .*** Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século xx, II, i, 298-9; also Dicionário das revistas literárias portuguesas do século XX, p. 199. OCLC: 47782849. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Biblioteca de Arte. WorldCat locates copies at the New York Public Library and the Bibliotheek Universiteit Van Amsterdam. Not located in COPAC. Not located in Hollis or Orbis. Not located in Melvyl.

Piling on Júlio Dantas

8. Nova phenix renascida. Coimbra: Tip. F. França Amado, Successor, Julho de 1921. Slight browning. Overall a very good, partially unopened copy. Illustrated lithograph bookplate of A.[lfredo] Ribeiro dos Santos. A smaller version of the same bookplate on verso of front wrapper. Blue and gold glossy rectangular binder's ticket with rounded corners of Manuel F.ra & Silva, Praça Coronel Pacheco, 64-1º, Porto. 32 pp. Nº 1 [all published]. $900.00
. .. .. .*FIRST and ONLY EDITION, A COMPLETE RUN. According to Fernando Guimarães, this review, along with others such as Ícaro, A Tradição, A Nossa Revista, Bysancio, Conímbriga, Tríptico, and Labareda, mix tendencies which were still strong in the 1920s, among them Decadentismo, Simbolism, Literary Nationalism, and Saudosismo. These were to unite with the Modernism of the generation of Orpheu, preparing the way for the appearance of Presença.

. .. .. .**Edited by Luís Vieira de Castro and published by Luís de Sousa e Vasconcelos, in an initial essay Manuel de Meneses (pp. 1-4) disparages authors such as Júlio Dantas, Antero de Figueiredo, Carlos Malheiro Dias, António Patrício, Sousa Pinto and Augusto de Castro, among others. In the same essay, Meneses affirms that the review proposes to analyze the state of Portuguese literature and contribute to its rehabilitation, stating that the review is not the organ of any coterie, and does not present any particular program. Four sonnets by João Cabral do Nascimento (pp. 5-8) are followed by an article on Russian ballet by Ernesto Gonçalves (pp. 9-16). There are two previously unpublished letters by Camilo Castelo Branco to José Cardoso Vieira de Castro (pp. 17-9), and Luís Vieira de Castro contributes a piece of short fiction titled "Espiritual" (pp. 20-5), as well as an essay "Ideias & factos, cronica: a melhor obra de Camillo" (pp. 29-31). Álvaro Manso de Souza provides three sonnets with the collective title "Poemas Orientais" (pp. 26-8). Finally, Manuel de Meneses contributes a brief resumé of the recent "Vida Literária e Artistica" (pp. 31-2), which includes favorable mention of Eugenio de Castro, Fialho de Almeida, and Aquilino Ribeiro, as well as the painter Eduardo Viana, while the performance of Ruy Coelho's opera Auto do Berço at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon was viewed as not a happy one, though the composer's talent was thought to be admirable.
. .. .. .*** Pires, Dicionário das revistas literárias portuguesas do século XX, pp. 219-20 [correctly transcribing the title of this review]; Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX, I, 256-7 [succumbing to the pedantry of the Porbase and Biblioteca Nacional cataloguers in calling this Nova fenix renascida]. Clara Rocha, Revistas literárias do século XX em Portugal, pp. 368-9, 643. Carneiro da Silva, Jornais e revistas do Distrito de Coimbra. Serpa 851. Almeida Marques 1463. See also Fernando Guimarães, Simbolismo, modernismo e vanguardas (1982). OCLC: 26497210. Porbase locates copies at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [typical of this otherwise very useful resource's pedantic approach to cataloguing, if one searches under "Nova phenix" no "hits" will be achieved; not even a cross reference; it is necessary to search under "Nova fenix"]. WorldCat cites copies at the University of Michigan Library, Washington University Libraries, and the Getty Research Library. Not located in COPAC. Not located in Hollis or Orbis.




9. [PESSOA, Fernando]. Fotobibliografia de Fernando Pessoa. Organização, introdução e notas de João Rui de Sousa. Prefácio de Eduardo Lourenço. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional / Biblioteca Nacional. 1988. Large 4° (24.5 x 21.2 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 319 pp., profusely illustrated (some illustrations in color). $125.00

One of Only 3 copies Specially Bound and Printed on "Cartão de Linho"

10. PINTO, Américo Cortês [or Cortez, or Cortos]. Poema da tentação: nova theoria da humildade. Lisbon: Portvgalia Editora, 1922. 8°, publisher's reverse sheep (minor wear) with printed title and illustrations in red and black on front cover, printed illustration in in black with red border on rear cover, vertical printed title on spine in red and black, top edge tinted purple, other edges uncut, purple silk ribbon place marker (tear near bottom), original printed and illustrated wrappers bound in. Title page and wrappers in red and black. Printed in red and black throughout. A very good copy. 124 pp., (3 ll.). One of only 3 copies specially bound and printed on "cartão de linho".                $400.00
. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION of perhaps the most significant of the author's books of poems, in a very special, very limited issue. According to Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes, it is the poetical work by Cortês Pinto "em que gizou os principais vectores da sua lírica: tendência mística radicada na conçepção cristã neoplatónica da alma peregrina em ascese cruciante; rejeição da métrica e de formas poéticas pela sobre–valorização do ritmo e da musicalidade do verso; e seriação dos poemas em ciclo.". The critic João Gaspar Simões considered Cortês Pinto a poet with talent and "com particular bom gosto . . . que, especialmente em Poema da tentação . . . associa a notas decadentistas de tipo paúlico [sic] lugares–comuns da tradição nacionalista . . . ."—Perspectiva histórica da poesia portuguesa: séc. XX, ensaio (1976), p. 253.
. .. .. .**Américo Cortez Pinto [or Cortês Pinto] (1896–1979), physician, writer, poet and historian, was a native of the freguesia de Cortes in the concelho de Leiria. He studied at Coimbra, interned at Leira, served as a parliamentary deputy, a member of the Lisbon municipal council, and inspector of health studies, among other posts. A contributor to literary reviews such as A Tradição, Contemporânea, A Galera, Letras e Artes, and Ícaro, of which he was one of the founders, along with Ernesto Gonçalves, Cabral do Nascimento, and Luís Vieira de Castro. In addition to a considerable output of poetry, prose, literary and historical works, he is best known for the polemical Da famosa arte da imprimissão: da imprensa em Portugal às cruzadas d'Além–Mar (1948), in which he defended the priority of Leiria in Portuguese Christian typography. While Chaves currently is agreed to have been the earliest Portuguese Christian printing site, Cortez Pinto's investigations and conclusions regarding the diffusion of printing in Africa and Asia by the Portuguese remain valuable. He was a friend of Hernani Cidade, Afonso Lopes Vieira, Carlos Queiroz, Lino António, António José Saraiva, Sebastião Pestana, and Mário Saa.
. .. .. .*** See Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes in Biblos, IV, 179–80; also Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, III, 501–3; and Grande enciclopédia, VII, 818; Acualização III, 498. Porbase lists 5 copies in the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa (2), the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Biblioteca João Paulo II, and the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto (2), but these all appear to be the regular issue. An author search in Porbase retrieved 59 "hits" for the author, listing only two earlier works, a book of poems from 1912, and a medical book dated 1921 (curiously, Porbase lists the "hits" under "Américo Cortos Pinto"). WorldCat lists the title, but was not able to cite any locations. Not located in COPAC. Not located in Hollis or Orbis.




11. ROZA, Miguel (i.e. Luiz Miguel Rosa Dias). Encontro "Magick" de Fernando Pessoa e Aleister Crowley. Compilação e considerações . . . . Lisbon: Hugin, 2001. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 529 pp., numerous illustration and facsimiles of documents. Several documents translated from the original English by Daniel Gouveia. $100.00
. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Out-of-print for several years and "searched for".
 
 
 

12. SAA, Mário. Erridânia, a geografia mais antiga do ocidente: o mundo atlantídico; o mundo argonautico; o mundo erridanico. Lisbon: Spcoedade "Astória", Limitada, Artes Gráficas, 1936. Large 8°, recent quarter navy blue sheep over buckram boards, flat spine with gilt fillets and lettering, decorated endleaves,  original printed wrappers bound in (some repairs to wrappers). Numerous maps and a few other illustrations in text. Some light toning. Overall a good to very good copy. Author's signed and dated prestentation inscription on half title: "De espaço a espaço, // um padrão de amidade. // Agora é este. // — Lxª 4 janº 937 — // Ao presidillisimo amigo // Américo Cortês Pinto // ofrece // Mário, A." Small pencilled note below relating to content of book, presumably in the hand of Américo Cortês Pinto. 302 pp., 4 large and very large folding maps.       $500.00
. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Mário [Pais da Cunha e] Saa (1893-1971), a native of Caldas da Rainha who was both a modernist and an archaist, is most widely known for his virulent anti-Semitism and his sensationalistic presentations of erudite theories, such as in the present work, and as evidenced by his books A invasão dos Judeus (1925), and As memórias astrológicas de Camões (1940). In some ways he might be considered the Portuguese equivalent to Ezra Pound. He contributed significantly to various reviews of both the first and second wave of Portuguese modernism, such as Athena, Contemporânea, Revista da Solução Editora, Sudoeste, and Presença.
. .. .. .**Provenance: Américo Cortez Pinto (1896–1979), physician, writer, poet and historian, native of the freguesia de Cortes in the concelho de Leiria. He studied at Coimbra, interned at Leira, served as a parliamentary deputy, a member of the Lisbon municipal council, and inspector of health studies, among other posts. A contributor to literary reviews such as A Tradição, Contemporânea, A Galera, Letras e Artes, and Ícaro, of which he was one of the founders, along with Ernesto Gonçalves, Cabral do Nascimento, and Luís Vieira de Castro. In addition to a considerable output of poetry, prose, literary and historical works, he is best known for the polemical Da famosa arte da imprimissão: da imprensa em Portugal às cruzadas d'Além–Mar (1948), in which he defended the priority of Leiria in Portuguese Christian typography. While Chaves currently is agreed to have been the earliest Portuguese Christian printing site, Cortez Pinto's investigations and conclusions regarding the diffusion of printing in Africa and Asia by the Portuguese remain valuable. Mário Saa was one of Cortez Pinto's closest friends. Others were Afonso Lopes Vieira, Carlos Queiroz, Lino António, António José Saraiva, Sebastião Pestana, and Hernâni Cidade. On Américo Cortez Pinto, see Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes in Biblos, IV, 179–80; also Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, III, 501–3; and Grande enciclopédia, VII, 818; Acualização III, 498.
. .. .. .*** See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 427; also Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos, IV, 1031–3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 459–61. Porbase lists three copies, one at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa, and two at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa. WorldCat cites copies at Harvard University, Columbia University, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich), and the Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin. COPAC lists a copy at the National Library of Scotland.

 
 
 
 
Massive and Meticulous Examination of Ancient Lusitania
Exceptional Presentation Copy

13. SAA, Mário. As grandes vias da Lusitania: o itinerário de Antonino Pio. Lisbon: Tipografia da Sociedade Astória, 1957-1967. 8°, original printed wrappers (spine of volume IV slightly defective). Edge of a folding map in volume IV a bit frayed. Inevitable browning. Overall a very good set. Each volume with the author's signed (and in four instances dated) presentation inscription on the half title, some rather extensive: (volume I) "Querido Américo // As nosas mãos de poeta, // são feitas de papel impresso. // Com eles nos comprimentamos. // Agora sim que, bem ou mal, // já me torné digno de aparecer. // Venha de lá esta mãosada, // essas falangas de papel // impresso! E manda o exem // plar da tua obra. // (Ao Américo Cortês Pinto, // A. Castilho, 57 r/c/ E. Lx.) // Mario Saa // — Pero Viegas, 29 de Abril 1957, Lua Nova —"; (volume II) "Ao longo de investigações // e reconhecimentos viais, de // muitos anos, jamais perdi de // visto o nosso amigo, o nosso // Américo, on nosso Cortez Pinto, // o nosso Poeta, Prosador e In– // vestigador. Jamais. Ideia fixa: // põ–lo ao corrente da minhas // investigações e conclusões sem // o que ... nada me pareceria // concluido. Laus Deo. // Lx. V. Xbro. MDCCCCLX // Mário"; (volume II) "Of seu, Américo Cortez Pinto // Lx. 8 Xbro. // Mario Saa"; (volume IV) "Americo! O 4º tomo. // Ao dar–t'o recebo a graça // da tua aceitação . . . (genu– // flesção século-dezoitina!) // Mario Saa // Avis, Abril, 20 / 1 96 4"; (volume V) "Américo! Que não // tarde este livro a ch– // gar–te ás mãos é o meu // pensamento! // Mário"; (volume VI) "Ao Américo Cortés Pinto! // O ultimo tomo, ultima balada // deste sonho de Estradas, // como páusa na vida e na // obra, ofrece ao Grande Talento, Grande Poeta e Grande Amigo // o Autor, // Mário // 1968 // Abril // 29". Volume II with a long 2 page carbon copy of a letter with manuscript corrections from Américo Cartés Pinto to Mário Saa enclosed in an envelope tipped on to inside front cover, with a long manuscript explanation in the hand of Cortés Pinto on the outside of the envelope; volume IV with a very long 1 page carbon copy of a letter with manuscript annotations from Américo Cartés Pinto to Mário Saa enclosed in an envelope tipped on to inside front cover; volume V with a carbon copy of a long 1 page letter from Américo Cartés Pinto to Mário Saa slipped inside the front cover; volume VI with carbon copy of a poem slipped inside front cover. Small envelope with photographs slipped into volume IV. 300 pp., (2 ll.), 4 folding maps (1 rather large), 6 plates; 372 pp., (2 ll.), 4 folding maps (1 large, 1 very large), 3 plates; 346 pp., (3 ll.), 4 maps (2 folding), 2 plates; 336 pp., (4 ll.), 3 maps (2 folding [1 very large]), 25 plates; 278 pp., (1 l., 1 slightly smaller errata l.), 11 maps (8 folding [1 very large with 2 maps on 1 sheet]), 9 plates; 325, (1) pp., (2 ll.), 7 maps (5 folding [1 very large]), 9 plates. In the final volume, there are three maps called for in the list of maps and plates at the end, which are not present; they are said to be identical to other maps, which are present.                                       $1,200.00
. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this meticulous examination of ancient Lusitania. Mário [Pais da Cunha e] Saa (1893-1971), a native of Caldas da Rainha who was both a modernist and an archaist, is most widely known for his virulent anti-Semitism and his sensationalistic presentations of erudite theories, such as is evidenced by his books A invasão dos Judeus (1925), Erridânia (1936), and As memórias astrológicas de Camões (1940). In some ways he might be considered the Portuguese equivalent to Ezra Pound. He contributed significantly to various reviews of both the first and second wave of Portuguese modernism, such as Athena, Contemporânea, Revista da Solução Editora, Sudoeste, and Presença.
. .. .. .**Provenance: Américo Cortez Pinto (1896–1979), physician, writer, poet and historian, native of the freguesia de Cortes in the concelho de Leiria. He studied at Coimbra, interned at Leira, served as a parliamentary deputy, a member of the Lisbon municipal council, and inspector of health studies, among other posts. A contributor to literary reviews such as A Tradição, Contemporânea, A Galera, Letras e Artes, and Ícaro, of which he was one of the founders, along with Ernesto Gonçalves, Cabral do Nascimento, and Luís Vieira de Castro. In addition to a considerable output of poetry, prose, literary and historical works, he is best known for the polemical Da famosa arte da imprimissão: da imprensa em Portugal às cruzadas d'Além–Mar (1948), in which he defended the priority of Leiria in Portuguese Christian typography. While Chaves currently is agreed to have been the earliest Portuguese Christian printing site, Cortez Pinto's investigations and conclusions regarding the diffusion of printing in Africa and Asia by the Portuguese remain valuable. Mário Saa was one of Cortez Pinto's closest friends. Others were Afonso Lopes Vieira, Carlos Queiroz, Lino António, António José Saraiva, Sebastião Pestana, and Hernâni Cidade. On Américo Cortez Pinto, see Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes in Biblos, IV, 179–80; also Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, III, 501–3; and Grande enciclopédia, VII, 818; Acualização III, 498.
. .. .. .*** See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 427; also Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos, IV, 1031–3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 459–61. Orbis lists 5 works by the author, but not this one.




14. SEIXAS, Artur do Cruzeiro. Obra poética. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi / Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Centro de Estudos do Surrealismo, 2002-2004. Biblioteca Eu Falo em Chamas, 1-3. Isabel Meyrelles, ed. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 240 pp., (4 ll.).; 452 pp., (6 ll.); 452 pp., (6 ll.). 3 volumes. $190.00

. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Volume II, subtitled Poemas de África, is out-of-print. We offer here a complete three volume set. Volume I was awarded the Prémio Ruy Belo, 2002. The surrealist painter Cruzeiro Seixas (b. 1920), is known for his "poder de imaginação e cromatismo vibrante" (Pamplona, 2nd ed., V, 160-1).




15. Sílex: revista de letras e artes. Lisbon: Tecniset — Cooperativa de Artes GráficasS.C.A.R.L., 1980-1986. Large 4° (24 x 20 cm., with some slight variations from issue to issue), original illustrated wrappers. Considerable illustration. The supplements on green paper. A very good set. 40; 40; 40; 40; 40; 48; 78; 84; 80 pp., (2 ll.); 76 pp. + supplements of (2); (2) ll. 10 numbers + 2 supplements. $900.00

. .. .. .**FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Numbers 1 through 10, published from March 1980 through September 1986. Supplement 1, undated, of two unnumbered leaves, is tipped into issue number 8. Supplement number 2, bound in at the end of issue number 9, is dated July 1984, and also consists of 2 unnumbered leaves. We think this is a complete run. Said to be a "publicação bimestral" (with the exception of the seventh and ninth issues, which say "semestral"), the first five numbers were indeed issued bimonthly from March through November 1980. The sixth number appeared in July 1981, the seventh in November 1982, the eighth in July 1983, the ninth in October 1984, and the tenth in September 1986. The Directores (i.e. publishers) were Artur Lucena, Henrique Madeira, Monteiro Pote, and Nuno Nozelos, while the editorial board consisted of Alexandre O'Neill, António Ramos Rosa, and João Rui de Sousa. After issue number 6, Monteiro Pote's name no longer appeared on the masthead, while for issue number 10, Artur Lucena is the lone "Director", with Henrique Madeira and José Manuel Capelo listed as "Subdirectores". Included are original poems, previously unpublished, as well as essays about poetry, poets, literature and art.

. .. .. .**Principle contributors were Agustina Bessa-Luís, Albano Martins, Alexandre Cabral, Alexandre O'Neill, Ana Hatherly, António Cândido Franco, António Luís Moita, António Quadros, António Ramos Rosa, Armando Lucena, Armando Silva Carvalho, Baptista-Bastos, Campos Matos, Casimiro de Brito, David Mourão-Ferreira, Dórdio Guimarães, Egito Gonçalves, Eurénio de Andrade, Fernando Assis Pacheco, Fernando Grade, Fernando Guimarães, Fernando Namora, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Jacinto Batista, Jacinto do Prado Coelho, João de Melo, João Gaspar Simões, João Rui de Sousa, Jorge Listopad, José Augusto Seabra, José Gomes Ferreira, José Jorge Letria, Luís Forjaz Trigueiros, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Maria Lúcia Lepecki, Maria Ondina Braga, Matilde Rosa Araújo, E.M. de Melo e Castro, Nuno Júdice, Raul de Carvalho, Rebecca Catz, Romeu Correia, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Vasco Graça Moura, and Vergílio Ferreira.

. .. .. .*** Pires, Dicionário das revistas literárias portugueses do século XX (1986), pp. 279-80, says that the review began in March 1980 and was in the course of publication. Not in Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX. Clara Rocha, Revistas literárias do século XX em Portugal, p. 673. Porbase lists 5 copies at 4 locations, but without any indication of the number of issues. Not located in WorldCat. COPAC cites copies at the British Library, University of Manchester, and National Library of Scotland, without mentioning which issues are present. Not located in Hollis or Orbis. Not located in Melvyl.