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Borges, Jorge Luis

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1st Edition
Hardcover

First UK edition. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Publisher’s grey-blue cloth with gilt to spine. In dust jacket designed by Ralph Mabey. 174pp. Tape marks to cloth and endpapers. Jacket toned in places and rubbed to edges; one tear to tail of lower fold. *** Scarce first UK edition of this collection of essays and short stories; the first book by Borges to be translated into English. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Bonner, Alastair Reid, Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd, although none of the translators are credited here.

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Book Details

AuthorBorges, Jorge Luis
PublisherWeidenfeld and Nicolson
Publisher Year1962
Book ConditionVery Good
Jacket ConditionVery Good
Binding TypeHardcover
Edition1st Edition
LanguageEnglish