First book publication of ‘Death and the Compass’
Los mejores cuentos policiales.
Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, [1943].
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First edition. 293, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, lacking printed dust jacket. Some toning to wrappers, slightly cocked and rubbed. Very good plus. Becco 118; Foster A87.1; Helft, pp. 63-4.
Item #326867
A pioneering collection of detective fiction, from Hawthorne, Poe, and Stevenson, to Simenon and Borges and his contemporaries. The translations and selections are by Borges and Bioy Casares.
This volume contains the first book publication of La muerte y la brújula (Death and the Compass), which appeared in Sur the preceding year.
