New York: Bergman, 1967. Rose cloth. pp 127, [5]. Distributor's sticker on front free endpaper, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Acosta was the son of a noble Portuguese family which had be forced to convert to Catholicism. He fled Portugal for Amsterdam where he could practice his ancestral religion, Judaism. Reacting against Rabbincal Judaism, he formulated his Eleven Theses, which are for the first time translated into a book in English here. He was exiled and reviled by the Jewish community, flogged in public in the great synagogue, spit upon, his books burned. and committed suicide as a result. This book is his autobiography, with new material for the first time translated into English. Uncommon book.

New York: Harcourt Brace, c. 1988. 4th printing of the Harvest Books paperback. Corner crease to two leaves, a few scattered pen strokes in text margins, gold sticker on cover promoting his winning of the Nobel Prize is quite rubbed, VG otherwise. With ink ownership signature of noted Canadian novelist and short story writer Leon Rooke, and with post-it note from major Canadian poet P.K. Page stating "Returned at last, love P.K."

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Grey boards. Book quite leaned; page edges yellowed; corner creases to a number of leaves; light ripples from damp (no tide mark) to lower margins of text; just a good copy. Jacket has a very small chip at foot of spine, sticker on front panel mentioning his 1998 Nobel Prize; VG otherwise. Inscribed by Michael Ondaatje to a noted Canadian literary couple, close frends of his.

London: Max Reinhardt, 1953. Octavo, pink cloth. Tidy ink owner name at top margin of front free endpaper, with ink date on the other side, mild foxing to page edges, soft bruise to lower outer corners of covers and head of spine, VG+ otherwise. Thin jacket has small chips and tears, with one long tear on rear panel internally repaired; good, flap price intact. Author was the greatest of 19th century Portuguese novelist. The translator lived his last years in Portugal, a country he deeply loved.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Second printing, same year as first. Red cloth. pp (xii), 200 + plates. Endpaper maps. Spine lightly sunned, else a VG jacketless copy, no owner names. Travelogue - Mediterranean coast of Spain and Portugal.

London: Sylvan Press, 1960. 12mo, beige boards. pp 51. Short shallow dark stain to upper margin of pp 33 to end; ink owner name (date on other side) to front free endpaper, moderate wear to outer corners, offset yellowing to inner margins of free endpapers, else a VG clean and tight copy. Cream dust jacket has short tears; small chips at spine ends; light soiling; tape shadow at lower spine; dark spot at top of rear flap; just good, flap price intact. Inscribed by the author in Lisbon in 1961, signed in full. The Portuguese novelist's only book of poems. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

London: Max Reinhardt, 1955. (US ed. in 1962). 12mo, 216 pp. Maroon boards. Fine copy. The Biro dust jacket has nicks, tiny corner chip to tips of lighly sunned & tanned spine; light soiling & tanning to white rear panel; VG+ otherwise. Author was the greatest novelist of 19th century Portuguese literature. Translation by a noted South African poet.

London: Printed for W. Taylor...and C. Rivington, 1724. Octavo, contemporary calf, spine label. viii, iv, 138, [10, index] pp. Frontispiece illustration. Binding a little worn, stained; front joint broken but the cords are still holding, internally repaired neatly with cloth tape; upper outer corner of titl e page has a small light ink name at top and a large, obtrusive 1839 ink name in a different hand beneath; soil spots to fore margin of two leaves and a few small soil spots in text; else VG and unworn internally. The translation was by Gabriel Rous Sillon. First edition in English of this translation was London: Chetwood, 1721. There was previously a London, 1712, English translation by John Hughes.