May 11, 2023 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
BORGES, JOSE LUIS
Dreamtigers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. First American edition, signed by Borges on the half title. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in copper, in printed dust jacket. 8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (21.5 x 13 cm); 95, [1] pp., with woodcuts after Antonio Frasconi. Spine lightly toned, jacket with one short closed tear and a few tiny tears at folds, promotional pamphlet for a 1968 International Poetry Foundation event held at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library, where this copy was signed, laid in.
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The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
BORGES, JOSE LUIS
Dreamtigers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. First American edition, signed by Borges on the half title. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in copper, in printed dust jacket. 8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (21.5 x 13 cm); 95, [1] pp., with woodcuts after Antonio Frasconi. Spine lightly toned, jacket with one short closed tear and a few tiny tears at folds, promotional pamphlet for a 1968 International Poetry Foundation event held at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library, where this copy was signed, laid in.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 11, 2023
