Arraianos. Histórias de contrabandistas & malteses.

[Lisbon], [Edição do Autor at Tipografia Ideal], 1955.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (minor wear). Light browning. In good to very good condition. Author's signed two-line presentation inscription on the half-title to Henrique Avelar. 208 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of one of the most important works by [Joaquim] Azinhal Abelho (Nossa Senhora da Orada, Borba, 1916-Lisbon, 1979). Abelho also wrote plays, some in the manner of Gil Vicente and others in the post-Romantic mode. For the Teatro d'Arte de Lisboa, which he founded in 1955 with Orlando Vitorino, he and Vitorino translated plays by Graham Greene, Lorca and Chekhov.*** On Abelho, see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses IV, 446-7; this is listed as one of his major works. See also João Bigotte Chorão in Biblos, I, 10. NUC: DLC, NN, CLU, MH.