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Buenos Aires: Ediciones Alfa, 1930.

Price: $2,000.00

About the item

First edition, one of 1,000 copies (no. 266). Frontispiece portrait by Victor Delhez, 2 color plates, 26 black and white illustrations. 81 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Original printed wrappers. Spine toned and rubbed, first few leaves loosened. very good plus. Inscribed. Becco 191; Helft, p. 37.

Item #326866

Borges wrote the introductory essay (pp. 9-13) for this collection of the work of Pedro Figari. Inscribed by the author on the first blank, to Argentine art critic Romulado Brughetti: “Estimado Profesor, finalmente le envio al folleto solicitado, Lo saluda, Jorge Luis Borges”

Romualdo Brughetti (1912-2003) was an Argentine art critic and correspondent of Borges, and regular recipient of inscribed copies of Borges’ works. In the late 1930s, Brughetti made a study of the Argentine malaise, published as Descontento creador. Afirmación de una conciencia argentina (1943).