Borges, Jorge Luis
First edition, sole printing, of the author's scarce first collection of short stories. Many of the stories for which Borges is best remembered appear here, including "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote", "La lotería en Babilonia", and "La biblioteca de Babel".
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8vo. 199 x 145 mm. 126 pp. Original blue wrappers, lettered in white. Minor toning to spine and shelf wear to original paper wrappers, interiors remarkably clean and bright with only a few instances of foxing.
After two decades publishing mostly poetry and literary criticism, Borges turned his imagination to short story writing while working as an assistant in the Miguel Cané Municipal Library. He dispatched his librarian's duties in an hour in order to spend the rest of the day in the basement writing. El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan was later republished with an additional six stories as Ficciones (1944), which won Borges international acclaim.
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