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‎Selections from Sleight of Pen. Ballades and Other Poems‎

‎Scarce first edition, first printing of this booklet, inscribed by the author on the title page. Buenos Aires, The English Printery, 1940. Thin booklet of 14.5 x 22.5 cm, bound in the publisher's original paper wraps, (1 ff.) 33 pp. Warmly signed as follws: "To Dr. M. Rodrigo Octavio (Filho), with hommage and affection in memoery of a delightful but far too short meeting! Mackintosh Dec. 1940" First compilation of poems thus far published in various newspapers ("The London Mercury", "The New English Weekly" and many others, listed on the first leaflet of this book. Many poems bear French names: "Ballade du mariage à la mode", "Ballade des liégeoises", "Rêve saturnien", etc. yet all were written in English.‎

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‎Some creasing on the cover, paper slightly yellowed. Rodrigo Octavio (1892-1969) was a Brazilian writer who entered the Brazilian academy of letters in 1944, where he succeeded to his own father.‎