Torquato Neto. Os últimos dias de Paupéria

Rio de Janeiro, Editoria Eldorado, 1973. Softcover, 21.5 x 20 cm, 116 pp. First Edition. Complete with the 45 rpm vinyl record on which Gilberto Gil and Gal Costa perform two songs by the Brazilian journalist, poet, and songwriter Torquato Neto (1944-1972). Design and layout by Ana Maria Silva Duarte, Neto's widow. Text in Portuguese.

Features a collection of poems, articles and manifestos by Torquato Neto, the leader of the Tropicália art and counterculture movement, published posthumously in 1973 by the poet Waly Salomão. Neto was also the lyricist of many emblematic songs of the Tropicália movement. He took his own life the day after his 28th birthday. Moderate wear to cover edges, interior and record fine. Extremely rare.