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Item 333094Il Congresso del mondo. Testo di Jorge Luis Borges. [Traduzione di Gianni Guadalupi]. Illustrato con le miniature cosmologiche Tantra. Introduzione...

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $300

Parma: Franco Maria Ricci, 1974. First edition, one of 3000 copies. ELaboratly illustrated italian edition of Borges’ story El Congresso, first published in 1971. Read More Item Details for Il Congresso del mondo. Testo di Jorge Luis Borges. [Traduzione di Gianni Guadalupi]. Illustrato con le miniature cosmologiche Tantra. Introduzione di Raniero Gnoli Add to Wish List

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Item 339188Homenaje a Borges [in:] La Opinión Cultural. 15 September 1974.

(Borges, Jorge Luis).

Price: $125

Buenos Aires: 1974. Special cultural supplement to La Opinión devoted to Borges, on the occasion of the pubication of the Obras Completas. Includes first publications of El Otro (short fiction) and Pantera (poem). Read More Item Details for Homenaje a Borges [in:] La Opinión Cultural. 15 September 1974 Add to Wish List

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Item 332824Texas [Translated by Mark Strand].

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $150

Austin: The University of Texas at Austin. Humanities Research Center, [1975]. One of 295 copies. The concise, striking poem by Borges written upon his first visit to Texas, reproducing a fair copy of the sonnet in the collections of the Humanities Research Center. The English version is by Mark Strand..... Read More Item Details for Texas [Translated by Mark Strand] Add to Wish List

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Item 333154In Praise of Darkness. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. A Bilingual Edition.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $1,000

[London]: Allen Lane, [1975]. First British edition. Signed by Borges on the title page. Read More Item Details for In Praise of Darkness. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. A Bilingual Edition Add to Wish List

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Item 335011Irish Strategies. Two stories ... adapted into English by Anthony Kerrigan and into Irish by Diarmaid o Suilleabhain ... Eight...

Borges, [Jorge Luis].

Price: $250

Dublin: Dolmen Press. Distributed in the United States by Humanities Press, 1975. Proof copy (the published edition was 350 copies). Includes “Theme of Traitor and Hero” and “The Form of the Sword”, essays, and two poems by Borges on James Joyce, translated by Kerrigan. A beautiful production, here in an..... Read More Item Details for Irish Strategies. Two stories ... adapted into English by Anthony Kerrigan and into Irish by Diarmaid o Suilleabhain ... Eight drawings by Bernard Childs Add to Wish List

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Item 338232Imaginación y Fantasía. [At head of title:] Cuentos de las Américas.

(Borges, Jorge Luis) Yates, Donald A., and John B. DALBOR, editors.

Price: $1,500

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1975]. Third edition, with revised contents. With agreement to reprint ‘La Muerta y la Brújula’ signed by Borges. With the typed agreement to reprint La Muerta y la Brújula in this edition, one page typed document on Michigan State University letterhead, June 8, 1974..... Read More Item Details for Imaginación y Fantasía. [At head of title:] Cuentos de las Américas Add to Wish List

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Item 332870Chronicles of Bustos Domecq ... Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

Borges, Jorge Luis, and Adolfo Bioy-Casares.

Price: $500

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. First American edition, uncorrected proof. Signed. Signed by Borges in a late hand on the title page. Read More Item Details for Chronicles of Bustos Domecq ... Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni Add to Wish List

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Item 333100Lakeside Magazine Presents An Evening with Jorge Luis Borges February 5, 1976, The Louis Room, Northwestern University.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $500

[Evanston: Northwestern University, 1976]. Signed by Borges. Read More Item Details for Lakeside Magazine Presents An Evening with Jorge Luis Borges February 5, 1976, The Louis Room, Northwestern University Add to Wish List

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Item 338268Chronicles of Bustos Domecq ... Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

Borges, Jorge Luis, and Adolfo Bioy-Casares.

Price: $75

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. First American edition. Read More Item Details for Chronicles of Bustos Domecq ... Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni Add to Wish List

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Item 338443La Moneda de Hierro.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $100

[Buenos Aires]: Emecé, [1976]. First edition. Attractive larger format volume of these late poems by Borges, including his tribute to Herman Melville. Read More Item Details for La Moneda de Hierro Add to Wish List

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Item 326873Adrogué. Ilustraciones de Norah Borges.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $1,750

[Adrogué (Almirante Brown)]: Ediciones Adrogué, 1977. First edition. Signed. Poems by Borges with illustrations by his sister Norah. Read More Item Details for Adrogué. Ilustraciones de Norah Borges Add to Wish List

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Item 332809The Gold of the Tigers. Selected Later Poems. Translated by Alastair Reid.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $750

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977. Uncorrected proof. Proof Copy, Signed by Borges. The text in English appears first, followed by the original Spanish text. In the published edition, the poems are reset with the Spanish and English on facing pages. Signed by Borges. Read More Item Details for The Gold of the Tigers. Selected Later Poems. Translated by Alastair Reid Add to Wish List

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Item 338240The Gold of the Tigers. Translated by Alastair Reid. A Bilingual Edition.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $100

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Gold of the Tigers. Translated by Alastair Reid. A Bilingual Edition Add to Wish List

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Item 338442Historia de la Noche.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $100

[Buenos Aires]: Emecé, [1977]. First edition. Attractive larger format volume. Read More Item Details for Historia de la Noche Add to Wish List

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Item 338870Playboy. Vol. 24, no. 5, May 1977. "The Other” by Jorge Luis Borges. [And:] “Silversmith Wishes” by Robert Sheckley.

Borges, Jorge Luis; Robert SHECKLEY.

Price: $50

Chicago: Playboy, 1977. Includes the first appearance by Borges in Playboy, with “The Other”, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni at pp. 97,103, 203-4 (originally published in Spanish in 1972); and a classic story by Robert Sheckley, “Silversmith Wishes”; the interview is with the NBC Saturday Night crew, including Dan..... Read More Item Details for Playboy. Vol. 24, no. 5, May 1977. "The Other” by Jorge Luis Borges. [And:] “Silversmith Wishes” by Robert Sheckley Add to Wish List

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Item 335013Cuentos descorteses. Selección y prológo de Jorge Luis Borges.

(Borges, Jorge Luis) Bloy, Leon.

Price: $75

[Buenos Aires: Ediciones Librería La Ciudad, por Franco Maria Ricci, 1978]. Limited first edition, no. 1026 of 4,000 copies. The second volume in the series La Biblioteca de Babel, named after Borges' famous short story. All selections in the series were made by Borges, who wrote prologues for each; he..... Read More Item Details for Cuentos descorteses. Selección y prológo de Jorge Luis Borges Add to Wish List

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Item 338520Breve Antologia Anglosajona.

Borges, Jorge Luis, and María KODAMA.

Price: $125

[Santiago de Chile]: Ediciones de la Ciudad, [1978]. First edition. Collection of 7 Old English texts, including a fragment of Beowulf, with commentaries. Read More Item Details for Breve Antologia Anglosajona Add to Wish List

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Item 338256The Book of Sand. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. The Gold of the Tigers. Selected Later Poems: translated by...

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $75

[London]: Allen Lane, [1979]. First U.K. edition, clothbound issue. Published simultaneously in paperback by Penguin. Read More Item Details for The Book of Sand. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. The Gold of the Tigers. Selected Later Poems: translated by Alastair Reid Add to Wish List

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Item 338455Borges, Oral. El libro. La inmortalidad. Emanuel Swedenborg. El cuento policial. El tiempo.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $75

Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores / Editorial de Belgrano, [1979]. First edition. Transcriptions of five lectures given by Borges at the Universidad de Belgrano. Read More Item Details for Borges, Oral. El libro. La inmortalidad. Emanuel Swedenborg. El cuento policial. El tiempo Add to Wish List

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Item 332923Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

Borges, Jorge Luis, and Adolfo Bioy-Casares.

Price: $500

New York: E.P. Dutton, [1981]. Advance galley proofs. Signed by Borges. Read More Item Details for Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni Add to Wish List

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Item 333073Funes el memorioso.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $2,000

[Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1981]. Edición fuera de comercio. Copy no. 10 of 15 copies on Okawara paper (total edition of 30). One of 15 Copies. Fine press edition of this story, first published in La Nacion in 1942, and collected in Ficciones (1944). Hand set in 6 point..... Read More Item Details for Funes el memorioso Add to Wish List

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Item 338271Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

Borges, Jorge Luis, and Adolfo Bioy-Casares.

Price: $50

London: Allen Lane, [1981]. First U.K. edition. Read More Item Details for Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni Add to Wish List

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Item 338054Dante Studies, Volume I. Dante in the Twentieth Century.

(Borges, Jorge Luis) Caso, Adolph, Editor.

Price: $50

Boston: Dante University of America Press, 1982. First edition. Includes “La Fede Poetica di Dante” by Borges at pp. 80-83, reprinted from Il Giornale Nuovo (19 July 1981). Read More Item Details for Dante Studies, Volume I. Dante in the Twentieth Century Add to Wish List

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Item 338273Borges at Eighty. Conversations. Edited and with photographs by Willis Barnstone.

Borges, Jorge Luis.

Price: $50

Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, [1982]. First edition. Eleven chapters based on inteviews of Borges in 1980 by Willis Barnstone, Alastair Reid, Dick Cavett, Albert Coffa, Kenneth Brecher, John Coleman, Roger Cunningham, Robert Dunn, Miguel Enguidanos, Jorge Isaias Oclander, Luis Beltran, and Margery Resnick. Read More Item Details for Borges at Eighty. Conversations. Edited and with photographs by Willis Barnstone Add to Wish List

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