One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition, first printing. Publisher's full green cloth, in iconic first issue Guy Fleming dust jacket. Light spots of wear tips and corners, else near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with some shallow chipping spine tips and faint tape shadowing jacket verso from former superfluous tape repairs, now removed, in mylar cover. Item #233812
A cornerstone of twentieth-century literature and the defining work of Latin American magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the rise and fall of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo. With its lyrical prose and mythic scope, García Márquez’s masterwork helped bring global attention to the Latin American literary boom. This first American edition, translated by Gregory Rabassa—whose rendering the author famously praised as better than the Spanish original—marks the novel’s landmark introduction to English-speaking audiences. A modern classic that transformed the literary landscape.
A true first edition in English in first issue dust jacket with exclamation point at the end of the front flap first paragraph.
Price: $1,500.00