Borges jorge luis simms ruth (15 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. illustrated edition. 103 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. illustrated edition. 103 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 223 pages. 5.75x9.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardback. Condizione: As new. Condizione sovraccoperta: As new. First UK edition. First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. xviii, 205. Pale violet cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Mike Hasted (priced £2.50 to inner flap). With an Epilogue and Index. Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms with an introduction by James Irby. Preceded by the 1964 University of Texas Press edition. Originally published in 1952 by Sur in Buenos Aires, as: Otras Inquisiciones. Considered Borges's best book of essays, it includes meditations on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valéry, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka, while ranging in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 223 pages. 5.75x9.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

First Edition. [Philosophy] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, publisher Charles Levier's copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 205 [1]. Publisher's light grey cloth, grey label with silver titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at $4.75 to front flap. Grey endpapers. Internally bright and clean, Charle's Levien's ownership signature to front flyleaf, dated 1969. Top edge toned. Cloth gently foxed. Toning and light spotting to jacket. Mild edgewear with a few closed tears. A collection of highly creative philosophical essays that raise unusual questions, such as, did Shih Huang Ti build the Great Wall of China and burn all books written before his time for the same purpose.…

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; pale gray cloth, with titles stamped in silver and dark gray on spine; 205pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with a barely-perceptible degree of sunning to spine. Collection of 39 essays on various historical figures, originally published as 'Otras Inquisiciones' in 1952 and translated here into English for the first time. A stunning copy.…

dj. First American Edition. First American edition. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges on the series half title; scholar and translator Robert Lima's copy. Lima wrote the first critical work on Borges in English. Rare black-and-white press photo of Borges from 1967 laid in; "Return to Bob Lima" written by him on the verso in pencil. xviii, 205 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with gray and silver spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with trivial wear and toning. A collection of essays by the famous Argentinian author, one of his early works to be translated into English. Signed.…

Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms.&Uumlber den Autor.…