Mensagem

Portuguese is the original language and the Lisbon 1934 Parceria edition is the true and only first — this is the sole full-length Portuguese book Pessoa published in his lifetime, and it took the Antero de Quental prize in the year of issue. There is no UK or US edition of the period and therefore no precedence contest; English versions under the title 'Message' are much later translations. Only the Lisbon 1934 sheets are collected as the first.