signed first edition
1984 · New York
by Borges, Jorge Luis; Norman Thomas di Giovanni [Translator]
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1984. First American edition. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges on title page. 173 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter tan cloth and green boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with a small closed tear to the back panel near the head, else Fine. The first of the famous Argentinian author's works to be published, in 1930, a biography of Argentinian poet Evaristo Carriego, who lived from 1883 to 1912.
(Inventory #: 140946264)