Viking Adult, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. When Viking published Borges's Collected Fictions last September, the book received nationwide acclaim. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times hailed the publication as "an event, and cause for celebration." The celebration continues this April with the next installment in Vikings projected three-volume..... 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
Purdue University Press, June 1991. Hardcover. This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by..... More
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. 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
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Trade paperback. 22nd printing. Light wear to cover. Clean, unmarked interiors. [260 pages plus two page list of New Direction titles.]. More
Thunder's Mouth Press, November 2002. Paper Back. A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside..... More
Yale University Press, April 2009. Paper Back. A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and..... More
