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One Hundred Years of Solitude. First edition (as stated on copyright page, no number line on last page), in the first edition, second issue dust jacket ($7.95 price, with period at end of first paragraph on flap). Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1970. First American edition of the author's magnum opus. 422 pages. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Fine in a fine 2nd issue dust jacket, Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. "One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Columbia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. A fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. Book condition: Very Good.

True First Edition/First Printing in wraps in the original spanish; Near Fine. A beautiful copy of the true first edition of the now classic Garcia Marquez novel; this book first published in softcover in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1967; the first hardcover edition did not appear until 1970. Housed in a gorgeous custom clamshell box by Octavaye. This copy is in near fine condition with a solid, tight binding, a bright and sharp front cover, and clean white pages throughout; the book does show some light rubbing and creasing to the spine and edges, and some light foxing to the top of the page edges; a remarkably well preserved copy. Highly presentable and collectible, a bucket list item for the Garcia Marquez fan or the classic 20th century Lit collector! Not remaindered, not ex-library; will ship carefully wrapped and in a sturdy box."Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice..."