Viking, New York, 1999. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($40.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Ships in well padded box. Editor: Andrew Coleman.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Selected Poems (First Edition)

Publisher

Viking, New York

Publication Date

1999

Language

Spanish

ISBN 10

0670849413

ISBN 13

9780670849413

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

As New

Seller catalogs

Spanish Literature

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Synopsis

A bilingual collection of more than two hundred of the best poems written by a giant of modern literature, the largest English selection every published, includes many poems never before translated. 17,500 first printing. First serial, Harper's.

About the Author

One of the twentieth century's greatest writers, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) published numerous collections of poems, essays, and fiction, Director of the National Library of Buenos Aires from 1955 to 1973, Borges was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from both Columbia and Oxford. He received various literary awards over the course of his career, including the International Publisher's Prize (which he shared with Samuel Beckett in 1961), the Jerusalem Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize.

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