Jorge Luis Borges Selected Poems 1923-1967 edited with an introduction and notes by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni

Borges, Jorge Luis; Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas (ed)

$55.00

Publisher: Allen Lane The Penguin Press
Place Published: London
Edition: 1st UK Edition
Date Published: 1972
Size: 8vo

1st UK Edition selected poems of Borges, consisting of over 100 poems covering over 40 years’ output; a definitive edition with multiple translators (including Di Giovanni, Alan Dugan, John Hollander, Richard Howard and Cesar Rennert, WS Merwin, John Updike, Richard Wilbur), edited with an introduction and notes by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, and with a foreword by Borges, reference appendixes, and also including a list of the contents of the principal editions of Borges’ poetry; maroon cloth boards with black title label and gilt titling to spine; heavy foxing/tanning to endpapers, lighter to prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper a little edgeworn and rubbed, minor creases to original celoglaze, spine sunned, o.w. G-VG.

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