Os amigos infelizes. Edições Saber.

Porto, Tipografia e Encadernação de João Alves de Freitas & Filho, 1952.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (very slight wear). Title page in red and black. In very good condition. Author's signed and dated seven-line presentation inscription: "Ao Doctor Antonio de Oli- //veira Salazar // cuja figura enorme // o que Portugal teve de maior // homenagem de // Pedro Homem de Mello // Maio de 1952." [Salazar's] ticket with shelfmark overpasted with blank white paper, and small oblong black on silver ticket of Esquina, L.ª on verso of front wrapper. (4 ll.), 86 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these poems.Provenance: Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) was prime minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968; he founded and led the Estado Novo, the corporatist authoritarian government that ruled Portugal until 1974.*** On the lawyer, educator, folklorist and poet Pedro [da Cunha Pimentel] Homem de Mello (Porto, 1904-1984), contributor to Presença, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed.,Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 308; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, III, 618-19; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 195-7. Porbase locates six copies: two each in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Jisc repeats King's College London and Oxford University.