The Book of Imaginary Beings

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

El libro de los seres imaginarios First published in Buenos Aires 1967 Translation published in the U.S.A. 1969

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape 1970 Published in Penguin Books 1974

Copyright © Editorial Kier, S.A., Buenos Aires, 1967 Translation copyright © Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni, 1969 Assistance for the translation was gien by the Center for Inter-American Relations

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Linotype Pilgrim

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