In Praise Of Darkness. Poems. Translated From The Spanish Of 'Elagio De La Sombra' By Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. Jorge Luis Borges. Poetry

First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the somewhat more common US edition which utilised the same English-language translation. 8vo. 142pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Neat former owner inkstamp to the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in in just fractionally rubbed and lifting non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A three-page preface by the author precedes thirty-six poems, presented in both English and the original Spanish, plus an appendix and various notes. The author's first new volume of verse since 1960 (the original Spanish edition was published in 1969), and his first since the later 1920s written with book-publication in mind.