Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Siete Poemas Sajones; Seven Saxon Poems. Printed in maroon and black in Horizon Light type on Richard de Bas handmade paper, text in Spanish and English, 8 embossed vignettes by Arnaldo Pomodoro. Folio, original full vellum with three vertical bas-reliefs of gilded bronze inset into upper cover, spine titled in brown, some natural discoloration with some light scattered soiling to covers; fore- and bottom edges uncut, several leaves with a few spots largely to extreme bottom edges; in publisher's cloth-covered wooden box with an original relief-etched brass plate by Pomodoro nailed to lid, minor rubbing chiefly to corners. Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, [1974]

Additional Details

signed limited edition, number 22 of 100 copies from a total edition of 120. signed by the author and artist in the colophon. A beautiful and impressive production. Copies are difficult to locate outside institutional holdings and rarely to appear at auction; ABPC records only three copies sold.