FUGA DE NAVIDAD.; Ilustraciones de Nora Borges de Torre

Buenos Aires: Viau y Zona, 1929. (occassional minor foxing; glasine covering yellowing with wrps vg; o/w very good copy). color plates, illus., wrps. Noted intellectual humanist and author Alfonso Reyes (b, Mexico) narrates the difficulties he went through during his first Christmas in Madrid in 1923. Some years later, reinstalled in the diplomatic service as Mexican ambassador in Argentina (1927-1930), the book is published. Illustrated with 6 full-page illustrations by Nora Borges de Torre, sister of noted poet and author Jorge Luis Borges, who considered Reyes the greatest prose writer in Spanish in of any era. LIMITED EDITION OF 300 copies of artisan publishing on papel de hilo Romaní.