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The Imprint

Candi Press

A Call to Authors

Candi Press is a small press with one conviction: some books deserve to be read slowly, and to be made with the care that asks for it. We set type by hand — old craft — in classical faces on cream paper; we hunt every widow, orphan, and hanging word; we read a text root by root before we ever call it finished. The trained human eye is our final judge — of a word, and of a page.

We publish across three currents:

I · Documentary

Critical editions

Primary sources carried into English, sourced and faced.

II · Classical

Root-first readings

The old tongues read one word at a time, image as judge.

III · Literary

Work worth keeping

Recovered and composed writing, made to last.

Historinhas sem Verbos by Marilda Vasconcelos de Oliveira — Candi Press, volume one
Coleção Candi Press · Volume One
The proof is Marilda

Historinhas sem Verbos

Historinhas sem Verbos arrived as nothing but 51 phone photographs of a late author’s typed pages, on a flowered tablecloth. Marilda had written a whole book of tales without a single verb — a rare feat of constrained writing. We corrected each image before reading it, reassembled the pile by the page numbers the leaves themselves carried, adjudicated every doubtful word by eye, installed proper Brazilian hyphenation at the typesetting level, and dressed the book in a painting by her son. From a shoebox of photographs to a paperback on Amazon — published in her memory, as Coleção Candi Press, volume one.

See the book on Amazon →

If you are an author — living, or carrying a parent’s or a friend’s unpublished work — and you want it made well and brought to readers, write to me. I edit, I typeset, I design the cover, and I bring the book onto Amazon as its Editor. You keep your name on the spine; I make sure the pages are worthy of it.

Write to Plínio: pliniosantosfilho@gmail.com · WhatsApp +55 81 98613-2114
The Press's Shelf

Every title, with its spec

What the house has printed — the Testamentum Domini collection, a mystery play, and the first literary title. Each one made with the same care.

The Forty Days
Testamentum Domini · The gateway volume

The Forty Days

A layman's compendium on Christ's teaching in the forty days after the Resurrection, from the Ethiopian canon.
Paperback · 6 × 9 in · 174 pp · ISBN 979-8-253-26369-3 · 2026
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The Word
Testamentum Domini · Vol. I

The Word

The reader's edition of EMML 2358 — a first-century text carried through four tongues into English for the first time.
Paperback · 7 × 10 in · 186 pp · ISBN 979-8-255-14120-3 · 2026
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The Train
Testamentum Domini · Vol. II

The Train / The Apparatus

Seventeen analytical chapters and a reference apparatus reading the Geʿez manuscript EMML 2358.
Paperback · 7 × 10 in · 503 pp · ISBN 979-8-199-53846-6 · 2026
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The Apparatus, Part A
Testamentum Domini · Vol. II-A · folios 2–46

The Apparatus · Part A

Critical edition of EMML 2358, folios 2–46: manuscript image · verse · apparatus of divergences.
Paperback · 8.5 × 11 in · 370 pp · ISBN 979-8-199-54814-4 · 2026
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The Apparatus, Part B
Testamentum Domini · Vol. II-B · folios 47–93

The Apparatus · Part B

The three-zone critical edition continues, folios 47–93, image · verse · apparatus.
Paperback · 8.5 × 11 in · 359 pp · ISBN 979-8-199-73738-8 · 2026
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The Apparatus, Part C
Testamentum Domini · Vol. II-C · folios 94–154

The Apparatus · Part C

The closing folios, 94–154, completing the three-zone apparatus of the manuscript.
Paperback · 8.5 × 11 in · 353 pp · ISBN 979-8-199-76062-1 · 2026
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Claude and I
Testamentum Domini · Vol. III

Claude and I

The record of a Recife physicist and an AI making the first direct Geʿez-to-English edition of EMML 2358.
Paperback · 7 × 10 in · 229 pp · ISBN 979-8-180244-08-6 · 2026
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Mother of the Living One
Testamentum Domini · Marian volume

Mother of the Living One

Mary and the Marian theology of the Testamentum Domini, read from the Geʿez among early witnesses.
Paperback · 6 × 9 in · 102 pp · ISBN 979-8-185-18864-4 · 2026
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The Holy Family
Testamentum Domini · The household that carried the Lord

The Holy Family

A documentary critical edition on the Holy Family — the household that carried the Lord.
Paperback · 6 × 9 in · 202 pp · ISBN 979-8-189-63782-7 · 2026
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The Godsons: A Mystery Play
A mystery play

The Godsons

A mystery play imagining the risen Christ's forty-day teaching and the apostles.
Paperback · 4.25 × 6.875 in · 177 pp · ISBN 979-8-184-02977-1 · 2026
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Historinhas sem Verbos
Coleção Candi Press · Volume One

Historinhas sem Verbos

Marilda Vasconcelos de Oliveira · Plínio Santos Filho, Editor
Portuguese short stories written entirely without verbs — the first Candi Press literary title.
Paperback · A5 (148 × 210 mm) · 194 pp · ISBN 9798190200393 · 2026
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