Quadros. Preface by Salvador de Mendonça.

Rio de Janeiro, B.L. Garnier (printed at Typ. Franco-Americana), 1873.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary navy blue quarter sheep over marbled boards (minor wear), smooth spine with gilt fillets, author, and title; text-block edges sprinkled. Occasional light foxing. Three small round wormholes in final 12 leaves, one sometimes just touching a letter of text in the last 2 leaves. Still, in good condition overall. Bookplate of Américo Moreira da Silva. (6 ll.), 148 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of this book of 37 lyric poems. The author (1838-1888), poet, playwright, humorist, and distinguished journalist, was a native of São Luís, Maranhão. He served as secretary to the government of Parahyba (1865-1867), as deputy for in the seventeenth provincial legislature of Maranhão (1864-1867), as deputy general for Maranhão (1878-1881), and as director of the Diário official (1878-1882), a post he resigned due to political differences. A committed abolitionist, Serra contributed to La reforma and O abolicionista, the organ of the Sociedade Brazileira Contra a Escravidão, which he eventually edited. He is the patron of chair number 21 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.*** Sacramento Blake IV, 200: refers to an edition of Maranhão, 1873, with 156 pp., and says he thinks there is an undated Rio de Janeiro edition. Innocêncio XII, 111: refers only to the Rio de Janeiro edition of 1873, calling for viii, 148 pp. Ford, Whittem and Raphael, Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres p. 153: lists only the present edition, but dates it [1873?] and calls for [xi], 148 pp. See Joaquim de Almeida Serra, O abolicionista Joaquim Serra. Not located in Porbase. Jisc repeats British Library only. NUC: NIC, MH (148 pp.); Rio, 1872 at DCU-IA (148 pp.).