Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Cogorno, Santiago (illus.). Nueve Poemas. Etched frontispiece and additional frontis both signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. 8vo, original printed wrappers with glassine overwrap, trace of wear to spine ends; contents laid in loose as issued; publisher's card slipcase (repairs along panel splits). Copy V of 50 on Whatman, signed by Borges for Frank Virunono [?] on the limitation. Elusive Borges title; according to ABPC and Rare Book Hub just the second copy to appear at auction, and the first in over 30 years. Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1955