O libertino passeia por Braga, a idolátrica, o seu explendor [sic].

[Lisbon], Contraponto, [1961?].. FIRST EDITION. 4°, original beige printed self covers. Printed in blue ink throughout. Some browning in margins. Overall in good to very good condition. 31 pp. *** FIRST EDITION [?]. Confessions of a frustrated libertine and anti–hero. This [we think] original edition was seized by the P.I.D.E. Another edition limited to 500 copies, was printed and distributed clandestinely ca. 1969-1970 [we think]. A sixth edition appeared in 1992. There is also an edition of Braga, 2000.While Luiz Pacheco: 1 homem dividido por 2 and Contraponto state that the present edition was published in 1970, after the limited edition of 500 copies, we have our doubts. The typography of the present edition conforms fairly closely in typography and format to other works published by Contraponto from the late 1950s to the early 1960s (see, for example, Herberto Helder's O amor em visita, published by Contraponto in 1958). Moreover, 500 copies would actually have been a fairly large run for such a "special" work in the Portugal of 1970, leading one to believe that there must have been an earlier, suppressed edition which had resulted in enough notoriety to warrant the limited edition with 500 copies. Furthermore, while the present work has 31 pages and the limited edition has 53, (3) pp. and an extra text illustration, the present work is larger (21.7 cm. as opposed to 18.5 cm tall). Although not always the case, the work with the larger format usually appears first. Another point in favor of the present edition is that the final word of the title is wrongly spelled "explendor" instead of "esplendor", something Luiz Pacheco himself is said to have corrected in some copies. Finally, the text is dated at the end "Braga, 16 ou 17 de Outubro, 1961".The bohemian critic, polemicist, writer of fiction and publisher Luiz Pacheco, collaborated in A afixação proibida, the first Portuguese surrealist manifesto. *** Contraponto, p. 116. Luiz Pacheco: 1 homem dividido por 2, 44. Livros proibidoes no regime fascista, p. 70 (does not distinguish the edition). See Ana da Silva in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 358–9; also Jorge Colaço in Biblos, III, 1338–40; and Dicionário cronologico de autores portugueses, V, 426–8. Porbase cited a single copy, in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian-Biblioteca de Arte, in 2007; this was no longer cited as of December 7, 2010, when we located a copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa via Porbase, catalogued as [Porto 1969]. Porbase also locates two copies in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, dating this edition as we have dated it, [1961?]. No edition located in Hollis. Jisc locates only a single copy of the Lisbon 1992 edition at King's College London.