?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,500 - $ 6,000
UNIQUE COPY SIGNED BY BORGES WITH ORIGINAL FAGGIOLI DRAWING BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Tres Sonetos Americanos. Illustrated with 3 woodcuts by Juan Carlos Faggioli. Woodcuts and initials printed in brown. 22 pages. 4to, (263x203 mm), original folded wrappers printed in black, original glassine over-wrap (light tanning, small chip at head of spine), folded sheets laid loose as issued; few insignificant light spots. Buenos Aires: (Gustavo Fillel Day), 1965
limited edition, one of only 30 copies on "papel guarro" from a total edition of 34, each copy unique, with a signed original watercolor by faggioli. The three sonnets titled Emerson, Johatan Edwards (1703-58), and Camden (1892). signed by Borges, Faggioli, Gustavo Fillol Day (publisher), and Colombo (printer) on limitation. no auction appearance of any these examples from this limited issue found. OCLC locates two institutional copies, at the University of Texas in the Harry Ransom Collection, and the University of Notre Dame. A rare and remarkable Borges title.
