Item #000011850 The Gold of the Tigers; Selected Later Poems. Jorge Luis Borges.

The Gold of the Tigers; Selected Later Poems

New York: E.P. Dutton [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], 6-95, [1] pp. Quarter cream cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Alastair Reid, a bilingual edition. Spanish on the left, English text on the right. Borges turned increasingly to short fiction and to poetry over his life as his eye health deteriorated. Many of these poems directly explore Borges' blindness and his experiences with it. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #000011850

Minor foxing to the textblock; jacket has a small crease to its front flap.

Price: $85.00

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