Doctor Brodie's Report

First edition in English. Slim 8vo. 128pp. Quarter-bound black cloth over brick-red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; mustard endpapers. Jacket illustration by Jim McMullan (priced $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket). Foreword, Afterword, Bibliographical Note. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the Author. Originally published in 1970 as El informe de Brodie, by Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires.

Small loss to black cloth on upper board, else Fine.

A collection of 11 short stories dealing with revenge, murder, and horror, composed after a 17-year hiatus in the wake of Borges's overtaking blindness in the early 1950's. Written in the 'straightforward' manner of early Kipling, these allegories combine the simplicity of a folk storyteller with the complex vision of a man who has explored the labyrinths of his own psyche to its very core. "A never-ending source of surprise." –Saturday Review

[Becco 285; Foster A66.7]