PRESENÇA: fôlha de arte e critica: quinzenario / directores e editores Branquinho da Fonseca, João G

PRESENÇA: fôlha de arte e crítica: quinzenário / directores e editores Branquinho da Fonseca, João Gaspar Simões, José Régio.- Nº 1 [volume primeiro] a nº 2, série II, ano XII (10 de Março de 1927 a Fevereiro de 1940).- Coimbra: Atlântida, 1927-1940.- 56 números em 2 caixas: il.; 37 e 24 cm.- B., Complete collection of one of the most important and sought after literary magazines of the 20th century, vehicle of the second literary and artistic modernism and continuation of the Orpheu generation. The list of its collaborators includes the most important names in Portuguese literature from this literary current, such as Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro (posthumous collaboration), José Régio, Almada Negreiros, Júlio Pereira, Gaspar Simões, Carlos Queiroz, Branquinho da Fonseca , Casais Monteiro, Raúl Leal, Mário Saa, Pierre Hourcade, Mário Eloy, Arlindo Vicente and many others. Set in brochure, packed in two boxes. The first ends the 1st volume, composed of 27 numbers (no. 14/15 is double) and an index (4 p.); the second, includes the 21 issues of the 2nd volume, numbered from nº 28 to nº 48 (No. 31/32 and nº 41/42 are doubles) and the six issues of the 3rd volume, numbered from nº 49 to nº 53/54 ( the latter double) plus the index of the 2nd volume (4 p.) and the single fiftieth anniversary issue, published in 1997. The index of the 3rd volume is not present. In an ingenious compartment at the bottom of the 2nd box, the only two issues (No. 1 and No. 2) of series II, in a smaller format, published in November 1939 and February 1940. Loose in the 1st box, five advertising pages from Edições Presença: Eloi: novel / João Gaspar Simões; Jogo da cabra cega: novel / José Régio; Música / drawings by Júlio, words by José Régio; Apareceu ...mais e mais... /verses of Saúl Dias and drawings by Júlio. No. 1 a little handled and with some restorations, more extensive on the first sheet (in the remaining margins); nº 2 with slight marginal restorations; the first four numbers with some pencil underlining; nº 28 with slightly worn folds; nº 35 with delicate signature on the 1st page (Dr. João Marinho). The two book-shaped boxes (signed Invicta Livro), covered in red shagreen, graphic motifs from the magazine blind-engraved on the covers and a gold title, with the same graphics on the spines.