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SANTOS (Políbio Gomes dos). AS TRÊS Pessoas. Coimbra. 1938. - SANTOS (Políbio Gomes dos) AS TRÊS Pessoas . Coimbra: Portugália, 1938. 56, [4] pp.; 235 mm. First and only edition published during the author's lifetime. The Three People is the debut book by Políbio Gomes dos Santos (Ansião, 1911-1939), published in the same year he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, a disease from which he would die less than a year later, at the age of 27. A contributor to Cadernos da Juventude, O Diabo, and Sol Nascente, Políbio was part of the group that would form Novo Cancioneiro, the neo-realist collection that would posthumously publish the author's second and last book, Voz que Escuta (1944). Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate