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Sá da Bandeira, Angola, Publicações Imbondeiro, 1962.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (front wrapper barely attached; minor wear). Cover design by Fernando Marques, based on the author's concept. Printer's device on title page. Light browning, a few mild stains. In good condition. Author's signed ("Eduardo") and dated (1964) four-line ink inscription to his friend and comrade Cesto Lobo. 253 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this collection of short stories. The cover design by Fernando Marques is based on a concept of the author.Eduardo Teófilo (Eduardo Teófilo Braga, Évora, 1923-Lisbon, 1980) published poetry and short stories. Educated in Évora and Lisbon, he went to work in Angola in 1954, remaining there until 1975, when he returned to Lisbon. According to the Dicionário cronologico, "O cenário da sua poesia e dos seus contos é muito mais frequentemente o europeu do que o africano, posto que as suas intervenções de temática negra e angolana demonstrem sensibilidade àquele meio e àqueles gentes que, no entanto, nunca deixaria de ver na qualidade de observador europeu. E esta sinceridade não será um dos menores méritos, não sendo o único, da sua obra." His works appeared in Contos d'Africa, 1961, Imbondeiro Gigante I, 1963, and Contos portugueses do Ultramar, 1969. His works were among those published in the important Colecção Imbondeiro.Imbondeiro was established by Garibaldino de Andrade and Leonel Cosme in January 1960 in Sá da Bandeira (now Lumbango). A monthly publication, Colecção Imbondeiro, aimed to disseminate the literature of Portugal's colonies. Within a few months, its circulation had reached two thousand. Imbondeiro also published multi-volume anthologies, including Mákua (poetry), Dendela (children's literature), Imbondeiro Gigante (short stories), Livro de Bolso Imbondeiro (short stories, novellas, and dramas), Contos d'Africa and Novos contos d'Africa. In these and the 68 issues of the Colecção Imbondeiro, the Imbondeiro press introduced more than sixty authors who were significant in the literature of the Portuguese colonies. Imbondeiro was the largest publisher of its time in Angola. Its rival in publishing authors in the Portuguese colonies was the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, based in Lisbon, whose Colecção Autores Ultramarinos tended to be more favorable to the Portuguese government. Imbondeiro was so influential that in 1965 the Portuguese authorities shut it down, based partly on the fact that some of Imbondeiro's authors had expressed disaffection with the government.*** Moser and Ferreira, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa, nº 1405: calling for only 225 pp. (the collation of our copy agrees with Porbase); also, thirteen other works by the author. Soares, Notícia da literatura angolana, p. 334. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses V, 304-5. Porbase locates a copy each at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Jisc locates a copy each at British Library and Manchester University.