A Universal History of Infamy.

BORGES, Jorge Luis.

Item Number: 110651

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1972.

First edition of the book that established the “magical realism” movement. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Jorge Borges on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Irving Freeman. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. From the library of book collector Albert J. Raman, who received this work signed in person in Philadelphia on April 15, 1983 at the University of Pennsylvania. Scarce and desirable signed.

Described by literary critic Emir Rodríguez Monegal as "... the book that literally transformed the Spanish prose of the thirties and whose long echoes can still be heard in One Hundred Years of Solitude... ", Jorge Luis Borges' A Universal History of Infamy contains a collection of fictionalized accounts of noted scoundrels including Billy the Kid, Lazarus Morel, the Widow Ching, and Bill Harrigan.