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BORGES, Jorge Luis.
El Libro de Los Seres Imaginarios.
Con la colaboración de Margarita Guerrero. Ilustraciones de Baldessari.
First edition thus, first impression. An expansion of Manual de zoología fantástica, published in 1957. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in his difficult post-blindness hand "A John Murchison, con amistad […] Jorge Luis Borges, Cambridge […]". Murchison was Borges's secretary during his tenure as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard in 1967 and '68.
Large octavo. Original pictorial wrappers printed in black, red, blue, and grey. Illustrations throughout. Wrappers rubbed and tanned, contents a little toned. A very good copy.
