Ignorância da alma, 1951-1956.

Lisbon, Tipografia Ideal for The Author, 1956.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (slightly soiled). In good to very good condition. 95 pp., (1 l. table of contents, smaller l. errata, 1 l. colophon). One of 300 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this book of poems, one of the author's early publications, accompanied by a theoretical essay.E.[rnesto] M.[anuel Geraldes] de Melo e Castro (Covilhã, 1932-São Paulo, 2020), textile engineer, poet, artist, essayist and critic, was one of the leaders of the literary vanguard in Portugal during the second half of the twentieth century. *** On Melo e Castro see Fernando J.B. Martinho in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 118; Biblos, I, 1062-3; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 121-4; also Pamplona, Dicionaìrio de pintores e escultores portugueses (2nd ed.), II, 74. Porbase locates three copies: two at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at the Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do Porto. Jisc repeats Oxford University only. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase.