Saldo … de contos (Prosa humoristica).

Lisbon, Imprensa Libanio da Silva for Portugalia Editora, 1924.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, twentieth century (second quarter?) quarter morocco over decorated boards (some wear to corners; minor worm damage to lower board), flat spine with gilt fillets and both horizontal and vertical gilt lettering, decorated endleaves, top edges rouged, other edges uncut, original illustrated wrappers bound in. Front and rear wrappers with illustrations by Francisco Valença, who contributed 50 illustrations to the text. Tear of about 1.7 cm. to outer edge of rear wrapper. In very good condition. Author's signed and dated seven-line presentation inscription on half title: "Ao amigo e colega … bibliofilo // Jayme Moura, com mt.ª estima // e admiração … pela sua paciencia // ese - librista // oferece // Carlos Simões // 27/III/1924". Lithograph illustrated bookplate of Jayme A. de Moura. 251, (1) pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this series of humorous accounts. The author, (Lisbon 1878-Lisbon 1939), publicist and public functionary, was conservationist and librarian of the library of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia from 1911 until less than a month prior to his death. He wrote for the theater in collaboration with André Brun, contributed humorous pieces to a number of newspapers and reviews, and published quite a few works of a bibliographical and scientific nature.Francisco Valença (1882-1963), was perhaps the most important twentieth-century Portuguese caricaturist. The article on Valença in the Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira states: “Durante toda a sua vida tem constantemente enriquecido com os seus desenhos não só inúmeras páginas da grande maioria dos jornais e revistas de Portugal, com também de França, de Espanha e do Brasil. É, tanto pela extensão da sua obra, como pela sua intenção artística e social, um dos maiores caricaturistas portugueses depois de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, com o qual tem grandes afinidades.…” [on Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, suffice it to say he was a genius of caricature art]. Valença founded O Chinelo (1900); Salão cómico (1902); Varões assinalados (1909-1911 - winner of the “Grand Prix” in the Rio de Janeiro exposition of 1922-1923); O Moscardo (1913), and the Catálogos cómicos of the Exposições de Belas Artes of 1914-1919, 1923 and 1924, with the collaboration of Carlos Simões. His work appeared in the following newspapers, journals, and reviews: A Comédia portuguesa (1902); Brasil-Portugal (1902-1909); Suplemento humorístico do Século (1904-1908); Novidades (1907); Ilustração portuguesa (1906-1920); Tiro e sport (1906-1911); Arte musical (1907-1908); Alma nacional (1910); A Sátira (1911); Eco artístico (1914-1915); O teatro (1922-1923); Diário de notícias (the New York Times of Portugal; 1919-1924, 1930); O Mundo (1918-1924); Eco Artístico (1914-1915); De Teatro (1922–1923); República (1918); Ilustração (1926); Sempre fixe (from 1926); Alma nova (1922-1925); Portucale (Porto, 1930). He was artistic director of the weekly O Espectro (1925). Valença also published illustrations in numerous special Christmas issues of the Diário de Notícias as well as Comércio do Porto. He illustrated many books, including some for Emília de Sousa Costa, Julieta Ferrão, Alfredo França, Armando Ferreira, Augusto Cunha, Cruz Magalhães, Henrique Marques Junior, Luís Chaves, Magalhães Lima, Tomás de Eça Leal, etc. His work also appeared in Rire (Paris); Boletin Fermé (Barcelona); as well as many newspapers and reviews of Rio de Janeiro. Original examples of his work can be encountered in the Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Museu de Bragança, the Museu Municipal, Porto, the Museu Soares dos Reis in the same city, and the Getty Center. Provenance: Jaime [Augusto] Moura (b. Lisbon, 1903), accountant, bank employee, bibliophile and publicist, author of a number of books and articles. See Grande enciclopédia, XVIII, 16.*** On Carlos [Rodrigues] Simões, see Grande enciclopédia XXIX, 53. On Francisco Valença, see Grande enciclopédia XXXIII, 880; Actualização, X, 474; also Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses, V, 310. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in Library of Congress Online Catalog. Not located in Catnyp. Not located in Hollis. Not located in Orbis. Not located in Melvyl.