BORGES, Jorge Luis.

£4,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan. First edition of the author's first collection of short stories, including such famous ones as "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote", "La lotería en Babilonia", and "La biblioteca de Babel". A latecomer to the form, Borges spent two decades publishing mostly poetry and literary criticism before preparing this collection while working as an assistant librarian.The collection was republished with an additional six stories as Ficciones (1944), winning Borges international acclaim.This copy is in a variant binding, the book block trimmed and the covers not folding over the stiff free endpapers.

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