4vo. 99pp, [4]. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered white, slight old adhesion to endpapers. Corners slightly bumped, otherwise bright and clean throughout.
With two loosely inserted addendums: Adenda ao album de reproducoes.
Presentation inscription on the FFEP reads 'This book contains some works of João Carlos, published after his death. But since I don't believe tha[sic] he is not alive, I am sending it to you - Cyril and Jean - as from João Carlos Celestino Gomes himself. Sincerely yours, Silvina Celestino Gomes. 962'.

João Carlos Celestino Gomes (1899-1960) was a Portuguese doctor, teacher, painter, and writer, who belonged to the second generation Portuguese Modernist movement. While his art was presented under the name João Carlos, he wrote widely on subjects from art history to contemporary fiction, under the name Celestino Gomes.

The recipient of the inscription was Cyril Ernst Kenney (1898-1973), bibliophile, chartered surveyor and author of The Quadrant and the Quill; A book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, "a tryed and trusty Sea-man," and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669.