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The Book of Imaginary Beings [Signed by Borges]

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The Book of Imaginary Beings [Signed by Borges]

por Borges, Jorge Luis, with Margarita Guerrero

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NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. A rare signed example of this compelling work of cryptozoology by the Argentinian master: an alphabetical compendium of 120 imaginary beasts culled from various literary and world-historical sources. As in many of his best-known works, Borges here takes an existing literary form--the medieval bestiary--and imbues it with new dimension through a variety of quintessentially Borgesian tactics. These include satire, tonal experiments, and the inclusion of entries that push at the limits of what we might consider fantastical beasts ("An Animal Imagined by Kafka," "Animals in the Form of Spheres," etc.). The result is uniquely hybrid text, as much a work about cultural history and the boundaries of the human imagination as it is about imaginary beings themselves. First English-language edition, following Spanish-language editions of 1957 and 1967. Here newly revised and enlarged by Borges and the translator, Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Signed and dated ("1969") by Borges on the front free endpaper. Octavo (6 x 9.5 in.); 256pp., indexed; maroon cloth boards, in dust jacket. Very good (+) with mild sun fading to the softened spine ends and board perimeters, faint damp stains at base of front board and top of rear board, and one small spot of soiling to the textblock fore-edge. In a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

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Jorge Luis Borges wrote and edited the Book of Imaginary Beings in 1957 as the original Spanish Manual de zoología fantástica, or Handbook of Fantastic Zoology, expanding it in 1967 and 1969 to the final El libro de los seres imaginarios. The English edition, created in collaboration with translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni, contains descriptions of 120 mythical beasts from folklore and literature. In the preface, Borges states that the book is to be read "as with all miscellanies... not...

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Livreiro
Dividing Line Books US (US)
Nº do estoque do livreiro
001714
Título
The Book of Imaginary Beings [Signed by Borges]
Autor
Borges, Jorge Luis, with Margarita Guerrero
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Capa dura
Estado do livro
Usado - Muito Bom
Condição de sobrecapa
Fine
Quantidade Disponível
1
Edição
1st Edition
Editorial
E.P. Dutton & Co.
Local de publicação
NY
Data de publicação
1969
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