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Second illustrated edition.
Spine with some rubbing.
Illustrated with drawings by Horacio Cardo.
 
Rare presentation copy erroneously dated 1949 and signed by Jorge Luis Borges to his muse Ema Risso Platero : « à Emita, con afecto innumerable. »

 Ema Risso Platero, a Uruguayan diplomat, was also a painter, poet, and writer (notably the author of Arquitecturas del insomnio, with a preface by Borges), and a friend of Michel Foucault.
In his book Emma, karma de Borges, the Uruguayan writer Fernando Loustaunau discusses the relationship between Borges and Emita, and their final meeting in 1979 in Paris, when the Argentine writer was in the city to receive the Gold Medal of the Académie Française.
 
It was most likely on this occasion that Jorge Luis Borges presented this signed copy to his former muse, mistakenly dating the inscription 1949 instead of 1979—perhaps a nod to their shared past and enduring passions.