William Wilson. Trad. de Carlos Sequeira. Desenhos de Martins Barata. Novellas e Contos.

Lisbon, Edições Delta, [1923?].. First Edition in Portuguese. 16°, original illustrated wrappers. Two full page illustrations, a half page vignette, and smaller oval halftone portrait of Poe in text. Hairline tear to title page, 1.5 cm long. Tear in final leaf at hinge, 2 cm., does not touch text. Front wrapper with faint outline of water stain. Contemporary signature on front wrapper in black ink, does not touch text or illustration. Wrappers very lightly soiled. Textblock loose from wrappers. Pinpoint hole at head of all leaves. Overall in good condition. 37, (1) pp. *** First Edition in Portuguese of the present translation. Fernando Pessoa has provided an introduction of three pages, "Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)." Carlos Sequeira was a pseudonym for Augusto Ferreira [de Oliveira Bugalho] Gomes (1892–1953) poet, novelist and journalist. A longtime close friend of Pessoa, he collaborated in the second issue of Opheu, as well as the periodicals Athena, Ilustração portuguesa, Civilização, Acção and many others, some of which he also helped edit or direct. His taste and his technical knowledge made him a leader in the renaissance of graphic arts in Portugal. Pessoa wrote the preface for Ferreira Gomes' Quinto império, an important work for the transition from Modernism to Neo-Realism, published in 1934, which was also dedicated to Pessoa.*** Blanco PR 58: without collation. Not in the catalogue of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Edgar Allen Poe em Portugal, which does include as item 33 the original typescript with manuscript corrections of Pessoa's introduction, as well as item 34, another volume with a story by Poe, O Baile de Chamas ["The Masque of the Red Death"?], with the same introduction, also translated by Augusto Ferreira Gomes under the pseudonym Carlos Sequeira, published by Edições Delta [1923]. Not in Fotobibliografia Fernando Pessoa; cf. 72, the entry for O Baile de Chamas.