Description

Lello & Irmao, Porto [Published date: 1974]. Coleccao Lusitania, 14. Hardcover, 291 pp, [1] leaf of plates; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author; 16 cm. Text in Portuguese. Edition conforming to the first, revised by the author. Very good in good+ dust jacket. Bound in decorative green leatherette stamped in gilt and brown with ornamental frame and cross motifs. Light bumping to corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Decorative patterned endpapers printed in orange with architectural illustrations (Jeronimos Church, Convent of Christ, and Temple of Diana). Dust jacket printed in yellow and olive tones featuring a neoclassical building design with ornamental border. Dust jacket has several small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing and fading to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Part of Lello & Irmao's Coleccao Lusitania series of Portuguese classics, this edition presents Camilo Castelo Branco's 1882 regional novel A Brasileira de Prazins (Cenas do Minho), a realist and satirical study of social conventions and moral hypocrisy in rural northern Portugal. Includes the author's introduction reflecting on his late literary years and passion for old books.