From Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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8°, original printed wrappers (a few nicks). Small floral vignette on front cover and title page. Uncut. In good to very good condition overall; internally very good. 172 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of one of Botto's earliest published works. Includes a "Notícia" written by Fernando Pessoa, and poems by Pascoaes, Camilo Pessanha, "Ricardo Reis", Eugénio de Castro, and Fausto Guedes Teixeira. Fernando Guimarães, in his A poesia da Presença e o aparecimento do neo-realismo, considers this one of the most important books of poems to appear in 1923.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.*** Biblioteca Nacional, António Botto, p. 81. Serpa 132. Almeida Marques 181. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 503-6; Fernando Cabral Martins in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 71; and Carlos Mendes de Sousa in Biblos, I, 728-35. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1080. Seller Inventory # 44696
Bibliographic Details
Title: Motivos de belleza.
Publisher: Lisbon, Portugalia, 1923.
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
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