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8°, original printed wrappers (very minor foxing and soiling). Uncut. In very good condition. Signature of Jaime Cortesão Casimiro, dated Março 1941, in lower outer corner of half title. Purple stamp "RS" on half title. 188 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION. A second edition appeared in 1978.António [Tomás] Botto (1897-1959) was a member of the first group of Modernists in Portugal. His poetry has been described as some of the most original in the Portuguese language (Casais Monteiro, Poesía portuguesa contemporânea p. 177), and Botto himself as "uma das realidades definitivas e de primeira fila na intelectualidade portuguesa" (Grande enciclopedia IV, 988). Although his works caused consternation when first published - Botto was the first openly homosexual Portuguese writer-he was soon accepted in the avant-garde literary magazines and later in mainstream publications. Poet, author of short and long fiction, playwright, essayist, critic, polemicist, autobiographer, diarist, José Régio (1901-1969) was perhaps the most varied and complete as well as one of the greatest Portuguese literary figures of his century, and a key figure in the second generation of modernism. A native of Vila do Conde, he was a founder and editor of the review Presença, one of the most important Portuguese literary reviews ever. Provenance: Jaime Cortesão Casimiro was a close friend and collaborator of Alexandre O'Neill. He directed the review Mundo literário (53 issues, 1946-1948), to which O'Neill contributed two poems. Mundo literário, was published by Editorial Confluência, directed by Cortesão Casimiro and Calvet de Magalhães. This short-lived but influential publisher was responsible for the appearance in 1942 of two volumes of poems by Fernando Pessoa, edited and with substantial introductions by Adolfo Cassais Monteiro, in the series Antologia de Autores Portugueses e Estrangeiros.*** On Régio see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 405-7; Eugénio Lisboa in Biblos IV, 654-8; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 111-5. Seller Inventory # 38698
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