NY: Bramerica, 1953. Frontis; 246pp; index. Green cloth; dust jacket. Light toning to edges of leaves. Else fine in a very good jacket with reattached chip at base of spine, some toning. Signed, dated ("1954"), and inscribed in Portuguese by author at half-title.
Inscribed copy of the first English-language biography of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). The author, a namesake only of his subject, worked at the time of publication as Assistant director of the Brazilian Government Trade Bureau in New York.
