Dreamtigers

First UK edition. 8vo. 95pp. Red cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Jacket design by Mike Hasted (priced at £1.75 on the front flap). Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Introduction by Miguel Enguídanos. With an Epilogue and an Appendix.

Price-clipped d/w with a touch of age toning to the rear panel which sustains a 1-inch closed tear to the upper edge, else Fine.

Translated by Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland. First published by the University of Texas Press (1964). Originally published in 1960 as El Hacedor (The Maker) by Emecé Editores, in Buenos Aires.

A collection of poems, parables, stories, sketches, and apocryphal quotations. Considered by Borges to be his most personal work as the book 'abounds in reflections and interpolations' and produced in tribute to his year in residence at the University of Texas. "Of all my books, the book called El Hacedor [is my favourite] because it wrote itself... when I go back to that book, I find I've said the things I had to say, worked out the images I had to work out."

[Richard Burgin, Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, Souvenir Press, (1973)]