THE ALEPH AND OTHER STORIES 1933 - 1969

First UK edition, first printing. Publishers original purple/grey paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the Alan Tunbridge illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge peach. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and firm, the boards clean and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps, the closed text-block edge with a little faint toning. Complete with the very lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that remains bright and without loss or tears. Mild toning to the panel edges. Not price-clipped (£2.40 net to the lower front flap). An attractive example.

A collection of twenty stories by Jorge Luis Borges, eleven of which appear here in book form for the first time in Britain. Containing a specifically written autobiographical essay which "together with the commentary Borges has supplied on each story, gives fascinating insights into his life as a man and an artist and a key to the complexities, depth and universality of his writing" (Publisher's blurb).