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[email protected] . Website www.livroraro.com Telephones (212) 737 0222 and 737 0223 Fax (212) 288 4169 June 1, 2020 Special List 375 Fiction Items marked with an asterisk (*) will be shipped from Lisbon. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED: All items are understood to be on approval, and may be returned within a reasonable time for any reason whatsoever. VISITORS BY APPOINTMENT special list 375 3 Special List 375 Fiction With the Author’s Signed Presentation Inscription 1. ABELHO, [Joaquim] Azinhal. Arraianos. Histórias de contrabandistas & malteses. [Lisbon]: [Edição do Autor at Tipografia Ideal], 1955. 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.). $75.00 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.