With agreement signed by H. Bustos Domecq

[Typescript agreement to reprint “Los doce figuras del mundo” by H. Bustos Domecq in Latin Blood, signed by Borges and Bioy Casares].

Buenos Aires: Herder and Herder, October 5, 1971.

Price: $2,000.00


About the item

Top copy typescript of the agreement to reprint “Los doce figuras del mundo” by H. Bustos Domecq, signed “J.L. Borges” and “Adolfo Bioy Casares”, with a photocopy typescript agreement for “Piropos a medianoche”, signed in ink by Antonio Helu. 1 vols. 8vo. With agreement signed by H. Bustos Domecq. Loosely inserted in a copy of Latin Blood (1972), fine in fine price clipped dust jacket, signed by Borges on the title page. Provenance: Donald A. Yates; Gary Oleson.

Item #332765

Both members of the collective pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq have signed this agreement for the appearance in Latin Blood. The Best Crime and Detective Stories of South America, an excellent anthology edited by Donald A. Yates; the anthology also includes Yates’ translations of Death and the Compass and The Garden of Forking Paths.