The Book of Sand

First UK edition. Publisher’s original bright yellow cloth with black lettering to spine. In the eye-catching dust jacket with an illustration by Peter Goodfellow.186pp. Light foxing to top-edge of text block and with a few dents to head of board edges. Jacket slightly rubbed to head of spine; shallow crease to front flap. A near fine copy. *** This acclaimed selection of work by Borges consists of two sections: The Book of Sand (stories, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni) and The Gold of the Tigers (Selected Later Poems, translated by Alastair Reid).