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FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. 160. Original red boards backed in ecru cloth, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. Cloth of spine spotted, dustjacket a touch toned.
£50
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. 160. Original red boards backed in ecru cloth, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. Cloth of spine spotted, dustjacket a touch toned.
The first British edition of this early collaborative novel by Borges and Bioy-Casares, first published in 1942 under their pseudonym H. Bustos Domenq. This British issue uses the American sheets of the E.P. Dutton edition, which preceded this Allen Lane edition to bookshops.