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Los Funerales de la Mamá Grande [Big Mama's Funeral]
by García Márquez, Gabriel
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 8439711409
- ISBN 13
- 9788439711407
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Madrid: Narrativa Mondadori, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. [10], 11- 135, [5]. Signed and inscribed by author on half title page: "Para Teó- esté libro numero 538 que le [...]. Gabriel / 93."Red cloth boards with gilt spine titling and pictorial jacket. Light bumping at tail of spine, else fine. The title story from this collection of short fiction is notable for the author's first use of magical realism, a style that would become his trademark for the next fifty years. A clean, tight volume.
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- Bookseller
- Elk River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17621
- Title
- Los Funerales de la Mamá Grande [Big Mama's Funeral]
- Author
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 8439711409
- ISBN 13
- 9788439711407
- Publisher
- Narrativa Mondadori
- Place of Publication
- Madrid
- Date Published
- 1987
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Elk River Books
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Livingston, Montana
About Elk River Books
Elk River Books offers a curated selection of used and collectible books, specializing in outdoor literature, western history and authors from the Rocky Mountain West.
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- Octavo
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Gilt
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