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important and interesting courtesy book appears never to have been published again in
Portuguese, and we do not think that it was published in any other language with the
exception of Spanish. This Spanish edition is very little known. Luís de Abreu de Mello,
a native of Vila Viçosa, died at Lisbon, 1663.
j Palau 160465 (appears never to have seen a copy, calling the book a 12º, and
with only 3 preliminary leaves). Prestage, D. Francisco Manuel de Mello 85. Simón Díaz,
Bibliografia de la literatura hispanica, XIV, 549, 4632 (citing copies at the Biblioteca Nacional
de España, Biblioteca Universitaria de Santiago de Compostela, and the Library of Congress).
Not in Gallardo. Not in Salvá or Heredia. Not in Whitehead, British Library STC
of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Books. For editions in Portuguese and bio-bibliographical
information, see Barbosa Machado II, 182-8; Innocêncio II, 441; IX, 332. OCLC: 78183323
(John Carter Brown Library, National Library of Scotland). Porbase locates a single copy,
in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. CCPBE locates four copies in Spanish libraries.
Copac locates a single copy, at the National Library of Scotland.
100. MENDES, José Manuel. Prelúdio de Outono: ritmos e luas. Preface by
Lúcio Caraveiro da Silva Braga: Conselho Cultural da Universidade do
Minho, 1998. 8°, original printed wrappers. A very good copy. Author’s
signed and dated (Lx Março 99) eight-line presentation inscription on
title page to [Luís Manuel] Monteiro Baptista. Envelope tipped in of the
Associação Portuguesa de Escritores containing José Manuel Mendes’
10.2 x 14.3 cm. card with ten-line message (presumably to Monteiro
Baptista, addressed as “Sr. Dr., meu prezado Amigo”), signed and dated
Lx, 30 Março 99. 154 pp., (1 l.). One of 750 copies. $65.00
FIRST and apparently ONLY EDITION. The author’s Ombro, arma! (1978; 5th ed.
1998) was described as “… um dos romances portugueses mais significativos sobre o
drama da guerra colonial e de uma geração nela perdida ou por ela estigmatizada.”—
Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 311; see also pp. 310-1. Professor and
lawyer, Communist Party deputy to the Assembleia da República (1989–1991), and
president of the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, José Manuel Mendes has published
at least 8 volumes of poetry. One was originally issued in French; another, Presságios do
sul [1993], received the Grande Prémio de Literatura ITF in 1995 and was subsequently
published in Louvain in a bilingual Portuguese-French edition, and again in Belgium
in 1997. He has also published a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and
several other works.
Provenance: Luís Manuel Monteiro Baptista (1926-2009), distinguished Portuguese
physician and Communist Party militant, published a number of articles in
scientific journals.