Dreamtigers (1960/1964) Signed First Edition Reference

El hacedor (Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1960), published in English as Dreamtigers (University of Texas Press, 1964), is Borges’s most personal collection — prose poems, parables, poems, and the famous self-reflexive meditation “Borges and I.” The title piece describes Borges’s childhood dream of a tiger that, no matter how vividly imagined, always disintegrates into something less than a real tiger.

First Edition Identification

Spanish first: Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1960. El hacedor. English first: University of Texas Press, 1964. Dreamtigers. Translated by Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed Spanish first: $500–$1,500
• Signed English first: $200–$600
• Unsigned English first: $50–$150

Dreamtigers is the most intimate Borges collection — the one that reveals the man behind the intellectual constructions.