California 2022

First edition, 2 volumes bound as one, 8vo (21.1 x 12.6 cm). 7 engraved folding plates. Recent half calf period style (retaining the original endpapers), red morocco label, marbled sides. Scattered foxing and a few old pale stains. A very good copy, with half-title to both volumes.

First edition, large paper copy. 2 volumes, (32 x 24.5 cm); Volume I with 16 plates and maps (some folding), 4, 4, [2], iv, iv, iv, iv, [4], 578 pp., index; Volume II with 13 maps and plates (some folding), 2, 2, iv, 4, 4, iv, 576 pp. Together 29 plates and maps; Contents leaf in volume I only, volume II without a general title (as often) and without section titles, the title leaf A Plan for the Publication dated 1790 inserted at front of vol. ii, the fifth part (published 1808) not present here, a small old tape repair to verso of map at page 499, vol. i, old blind-stamps of the Explorers Club to first leaf each volume, finely bound in modern tree calf antique, covers with fanct gilt borders, flat spines in six compatments, red and green labels to second and fourth, others richly gilt, a very handsome set.

First edition, deluxe format, number 1 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author; photographic colour frontispiece and 29 similar plates of which 9 folding and including 2 plates on one sheet, 50 half-tone plates, captioned tissue guards, hinges reinforced [ý]as issued; publisher's brown pigskin with gilt roundel device to upper cover and lettered in gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed at spine ends and fore-corners, but overall a very good, handsome copy.

First edition. Folio. 28 lithograph plates, original wrapper as title, modern half calf, marbled boards, an excellent clean copy.

First edition, signed by Bioy Casares using his real name, and by Borges as 'H. Bustos Domecq'; 8vo; usual browning, clean tear across first leaf of text; publisher's blue wrappers printed in white, publisher's device in dark blue, rubbed at edges but otherwise very good, with the original belly-band loosely inserted;
together with
[BORGES, Jorge Luis; BIOY CASARES, Adolfo], DOMECQ, H[onorio] Bustos [pseud.]. The Twelve Figures of the World. Offprint from The Texas Quarterly, Vol.III, No.3, 1960. Only edition, signed by the translator Donald A. Yates; 8vo; original printed pale blue wrappers, a very good copy.
together with
Original typed agreement; 4to blue notepaper; 1 page, signed by Bioy Casares and Borges himself, allowing Yates to translate these stories; some creases at previous folds.

Reissue of first edition; 8vo; some light foxing and marginal toning, with some soft creasing and roughening to page-edges towards the end, advertorial endpapers, old repair to fore-edge of front free endpaper; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; all edges trimmed, slight rubbing and soiling to binding, mild edge wear, a few tiny spots of soiling; spine ends pushed with a bit of loss at foot, front joint splitting from bottom but sound, lower corners gently bumped, presented in custom brown cloth chemise in brown cloth slip-case, with dark brown leather spine labels stamped in gilt.

First edition, folio (47 x 37.7 cm), title-page and 12 magnificent hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell after Cartwright, plate of Ali Pacha mounted within ruled border, contemporary dark blue polished half calf gilt over cloth boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover, occasional light marginal soiling and spotting, rubbed.

First edition, copy 'D' of 26 lettered copies 'reserved for the press', double-signed by Bloch and the publisher Stuart Schiff; 8vo; publisher's device to title; publisher's red cloth lettered in black, pictorial dust-jacket with design by Don Ivan Punchatz, cloth slip-case with a little mild sunning.

15 x 8 cms, title, 52pp., text, 2 coloured woodblock prints (1 double-page), original blue wrappers, title to wrapper, stitched as issued, original(ý) fold-over protective case, modern blue morocco-backed box, small worm track slightly affecting last 3 leaves, else a fine example.

Second edition of Nodal. 2 works in one vol., small 4to, [xx], 162, [ii]; [ii], 43 pp., engraved folding map. Contemporary limp vellum, spine ink lettered, a fine example.