Dutton Adult, September 1981. First American. Hardcover. First US edition in very good dust jacket. White cloth spine with brown lettering & brown paper covered boards. Tanned end pages. Foxing to top edge & fore-edge. Also four brown specks top edge. Text without markings. More
Penguin USA, September 1999. First American. Hardcover. This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and..... More
Enitharmon Press, July 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto in very good dust jacket with sun faded edges. Brown paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. A thin line of scattered dark stains gutter of front end pages. Limited/numbered edition: 74/250. Tipped-in on frontispiece is print of Borges portrait..... More
Modern Library, January 1984. First Thus. Hardcover. First Modern Library edition (September, 1983). Originally issued by New Directions in 1964. Very good dust jacket with 1/4 inch x 1/8 inch hole (possible silverfish damage) along front fold 1/2 inch from bottom corner. NOT price clipped. Original price of $8.95 on..... More
CASTLE BOOKS, January 1967. Hardcover. Reissue in good dust jacket with tanning/darkening of spine & rubbing to front panel. NOT price clipped. Original price ($5.00) on front flap. Yellow paper covered boards with black lettering on spine. Foxing/darkening top textblock edge. Clean interiors without markings. Solid. More
Herder and Herder, 1971. First American. Cloth. First edition in mildly edgeworn jacket with a few creases front panel at top. Tanned spine verso. NOT price clipped. Original price of $5.50 on flap. Brown cloth with gold lettering. Olive green end pages. Previous owner's initials & a date inked bottom..... More
E.P. Dutton, January 1977. First American. Cloth. First/first in very good dust jacket with edgewear top of rear panel & 1 inch spidery closed tear top of spine. Foxing to white areas of jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $7.95 on flap. Tan quarter cloth and brown paper over..... More
E.P. Dutton, October 1977. First Thus. Paper Back. Some soiling, sticker residue to wrapper. Sound, without internal markings, underlining or side notes. Complete number string. More
The Friday Project, May 2014. Cloth. A biography of Borges, by his translator. Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a widow, with a son in his twenties, was eleven..... More
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. More
Paragon House Publishers, January 1988. Paper Back. Clean interiors. Otherwise well worn with dog-eared corners, sticker residue, dust stains, foxing & darkening from exposure to sunlight textblock edges. Foxing to verso of cover pages front & rear. Elsewise, foxing to blank pages opposite both front and back. (502 pp.). More
Verso, July 1993. Paper Back. Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is Argentinian is rarely discussed, as if his international reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality..... More
ST MARTIN'S Press, January 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Darkening & wear to edges. Clean internally. No markings. More
Trafalgar Square, July 1996. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in dust jacket. Blue cloth with gold lettering. Clean, sound. More
Times Books / Random House, 1993. Hardcover. In very good dustjacket. Red cloth covered spine with black lettering & red paper covered boards. Tight binding. Clean & sound. More
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in heavily chipped, darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. One long 4-inch tear that snakes down from top front panel near spine. Also a pyramid shaped chip at bottom front panel near fore-edge bottom corner. Each edge of chip about 3-inches. Tan textured..... More
Dalkey Archive Press, May 2018. Paper Back. Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike narratives loosely linked by the subject of libraries: book hoarding, book hunting, book burning, and, above all, the..... More
Picador, September 2020. Paper Back. "One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1999. Trade Paperback. China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty..... More
Vintage, July 2020. Paper Back. From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer comes The Big Book of Modern Fantasy a true horde of tales sure to delight fans, scholars -- even the greediest of dragons. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. Step through a shimmering portal . . . a worn wardrobe door .... More
