Amado, Jorge. THE TWO DEATHS OF QUINCAS WATERYELL... Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Octavo, boards. First edition in English. A short novel by the best-known twentieth-century Brazilian writer, a fantasy about a petite bourgeois civil servant who abandons his respectable life for the excitement of the street. When he dies, his family dresses him up in his respectable clothes, but some cronies replace these with street rags, and the corpse revives and resumes its wild life until it dies again. Reginald 16332. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#115835)