Calanga (romance).

Lourenço Marques, Tipografia Minerva Central, 1955.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (a few short tears, light soiling). Front wrapper illustration by the artist Anselmo Vieira. Partially unopened. Occasional light spotting. In good to very good condition. Author's 12-line dated ("4/4/57") presentation inscription on half-title to Dr. Feliciano Fernandes. 283, (1) pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this novel set in Moçambique. Rodrigues Júnior (Lisbon, 1902-Queluz, 1991), lived in Lourenço Marques from 1919 to 1976, when he returned to Portugal. His career in journalism began writing for the newspaper Emancipador, and as editor of the review Miragem, published in Lourenço Marques, 1930-1932. Eventually he produced some 50 volumes of fiction, essays, reporting, ethnography, and literary criticism.Provenance: Feliciano Fernandes (born Lisbon, 1900), was a publicist, lawyer, functionary of the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, and journalist. See Grande enciclopédia, XI, 103.*** Moser & Ferreira, Bibliografia das literaturas africanas de expressão portuguesa (1983), p. 203; for references to Rodrigues Júnior and other works by him see pp. 7, 17, 194, 199, 202-6, 227, 231, 237-9, 241, 243, 246-7, 249, 252, 283-6, 301, 309; Moser & Ferreira, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa (1993) 2893; see for other works items 109, 112, 139, 210, 230, 248-50, 2862, 2894-2900, 2929, 3042, 3064-71. See also Leonel Cosme in Biblios, IV, 913-4; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 152-6. NUC: DLC, CLU, IEN, NN, MH, CU, WU.