Sale 2530 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 20, 2020

131 c   BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Photograph Signed, bust portrait by Charles Phillips, showing him in profile. Signed vertically in the blank left margin. 10x8 inches; ink stamps from photographer and LIFE magazine on verso. Np, nd [350/500] 132 c   BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Two books, each dated and Signed on the front free endpaper: Herbert Asbury. Gangs of New York * William Boliltho. Murder for Profit. The first, written vertically near left edge. The second, additionally inscribed on the rear free endpaper, in Spanish: “Effect . . . obtained by punctuation. 34 Cf. De Quincey.” Each 8vo, publisher’s cloth, rear board of first stained, backstrip of each fraying with loss at head; bookseller’s label on front pastedown of each, faint foxing and uneven discoloration to preliminaries and subsidiaries including inscribed pages; lacking dust jacket. Later printings. Garden City, (1928; 1926); inscriptions: Np, August 1932; Adrogué, 1935 [350/500] 133 c   BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Two books, each Signed on the front free endpaper: Jack Bilbo. Carrying a Gun for Al Capone * Frederick Watson. A Century of Gunmen. The first, additionally dated, written vertically near left edge. Each 8vo, publisher’s cloth, moderate scattered staining, some loss to head of second backstrip; bookseller’s label on front pastedown of each, faint foxing and uneven discoloration to preliminaries and subsidiaries including inscribed pages; lacking dust jacket. Later printings. London, (1932); 1931; inscriptions: Buenos Aires, 1933; nd [350/500] 131