Frequent Hearses. A Detective Story

by Jorge Luis Borges, Edmund Crispin, Robert Bruce Montgomery

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, spine titled in black. Very good plus copy in worn dust jacket faded, flapfolds split, old cello repairs to verso . Ticket of Mitchell’s English Book Store, Buenos Aires. Signed at the back, Jorge Luis Borges, Adrogué 1950. With another family signature at front. Item #324443 Borges was an attentive and discriminating reader of detective fiction, and in April 1952

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