Publicado por E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1970
Librería: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: ABAA
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-286,[2]pp. Signed by the author in blue ball-point pen on the title page. Light shelfwear, upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with gentle sunning to upper and lower board edges, and a few faint ink marks to upper edge of textblock; publication date and price neatly stamped at upper right corner of front endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), lightly shelfworn, with some wear and a few tiny tears along the upper edge; Very Good+. Housed in a custom clamshell case. The author's sixth book translated into English, and together with Ficciones, the collection he considered his major work. The volume collects 20 stories eleven of which had never previously appeared in book form in English and a lengthy autobiographical essay. While many of these works are exceptional metaphysical fantasies, the title work stands above the others, describing "a magical point in space which contains all others, and in which the whole infinite universe can be glimpsed" (Barron, Fantasy Literature 3-43). The English versions of these stories are superb; to this point, di Giovanni's translations were the only ones done with Borges's collaboration. Uncommon signed. Becco 281.
Publicado por Emece Editores, Buenos Aires, 1961
Librería: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
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Signed by Jorge Luis Borges, inscribed to Robert Lima, an American translator and scholar who wrote the first critical work in English on Borges. 176 pp. Bound in publisher's green wraps. In Spanish. Very Good with rubbing and light wear to wraps, spine creased, slight bump to upper corner. An important collection of stories by the acclaimed Argentinian author.
Publicado por Losada, 1952
Librería: Alberto Casares, Buenos Aires, BUE, Argentina
Miembro de asociación: ALADA
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condición: Muy bien. 2ª Edición. Borges, Jorge Luis: EL ALEPH. Segunda edición aumentada. Buenos Aires, Losada, 1952. In 8°, 157, (3) p., rústica original. Dedicatoria original de J. L. Borges a Federico Vogelius. Ex libris de Federico Vogelius. Antigua etiqueta de la librería Fernández Blanco. Muy buen estado. Si bien se trata de una segunda edición, es considerada entre las ediciones originales de Borges por incluir 4 relatos que no aparecen en la primera (1949). Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor.
Publicado por Losada. Buenos Aires, 1949
Librería: Chaco 4ever Books, Montevideo, MO, Uruguay
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condición: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. In-8º. 146 (5)pp. Wrappers. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author. "A Ezequiel Martinez Estrada, con la admiracion de su amigo. Buenos Aires 1950 Jorge Luis Borges". Martinez estrada like almost all the components of the intellectual elite, he maintained a closed anti-Peronism between 1945 and 1955, but after that date he reacted with dignity to the first persecutory measures of the so-called Liberation Revolution, and began to collaborate with magazines and publications on the left, especially With Propositos", Leonidas Barletta's weekly newspaper, Jorge Luis Borges, came up with this kind of statements, and since then a hard controversy and other differences have been set up that separated them forever. (Despite this, after his death, Borges could not ignore the quality of writing and intelligence of Martinez Estrada, and commented his book of poems with these lines, although not very generous, fairly fair: "This volume is inconceivable without the previous work of Lugones and Darío, but there are many pieces that match or surpass their models, at this moment I remember the poems dedicated to Whitman, Emerson and Poe "). Since the friendship between them was diluted in 1956 it is difficult to find dedicated books from Borges to Martinez estrada. The Aleph is the second narrative summit of Borges and, together with Ficciones, one of his paradigmatic books. The mere enumeration of the stories that compose it headed by the El Aleph that gives title to the compilation would account for the endless richness of its writing and the inexhaustible conceptual spring that individualize it in the literature of the century. The fantastic universe, the mathematical and metaphysical mysteries, the intrigues, but also the historical and poetic sensitivity, produce here enduring metaphors, definitely incorporated into the collective unconscious. HELFT,72. W5. Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor.
Publicado por Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1952
Librería: Silent Way Books, Glenside, PA, Estados Unidos de America
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition, expanded, of Borges's third great collection of ficciones. Contains four stories which are not included in the first edition: "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos"," La espera", "El hombre en el umbral", "Abenjacan el Bojari, muetro en su laberinto". An excellent association copy, inscribed by Borges to his brother-in-law, the author Guillermo de Torre: "A Guillermo de Torre, cordialmente. Jorge Luis Borges?La Plata, Agosto 1952." A very good copy in publisher's illustrated self-wrappers (protected with glassine sleeve), the spine wrinkled but restored in a not-unappealing manner; the pages are securely sewn and otherwise unmarked. Signed and Inscribed By Author.