CONVERSATIONS WITH JORGE LUIS BORGES - Scarce Fine Copy of The First British Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Language: English

Published by Souvenir Press/A Condor Book, London: England, 1973

028564713X / 9780285647138

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1st Printing. 160 pages. Pioneering collection of interviews with the author. One of the best books on the literary art and achievement of Jorge Luis Borges. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a small educational press in the United Kingdom. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Richard Burgin's "Conversations With Jorge Luis Borges". Most illuminating. "He discusses his blindness, his family and childhood, early travels, literary friends and struggles to find his literary identity. In depth, he examines the meanings and intentions of his own famous stories and poems, and he speaks of the writers whose works he has loved - Dante, Cervantes, Emerson, Dickinson, H.G. Wells, Kafka, Stevenson, Kipling, Whitman, Frost and Faulkner, and of those whom he disliked, such as Hemingway and Lorca. He speaks also of the imagination as a type of dreaming, about issues of collaboration and translation, about philosophy and about time" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Jorge Luis Borges collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. This title is more than fifty years old yet this copy does not look like - thank goodness - it was ever used or read. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent editions. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JORGE LUIS BORGES TITLES IN UR CATALOG).…

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Title
CONVERSATIONS WITH JORGE LUIS BORGES - Scarce Fine Copy of The First British Hardcover Edition/First Printing
Author
Borges, Jorge Luis (Subject/Author) & Burgin, Richard (Co-Author)
Publisher
Souvenir Press/A Condor Book, London: England
Publication year
1973
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
028564713X
ISBN 13
9780285647138
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing

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