Until August (First Edition)
$40 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · In dust jacket
Knopf (New York), 2024 New York: Knopf (2024). Hardcover. First edition. First printing, stated. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. A short novel published posthumously in March 2024, released on the 97th anniversary of his birth, 6 March. Until August was originally planned to be a collection of four stories. Garc a M rquez had worked on the novel at least since 1997. In September of that year he read portions of Until August out loud at Georgetown University. However, he put aside work on the novel to work on Memories of My Melancholy Whores. In 2004, he commented that he felt satisfied with the development of the protagonist, but did not feel satisfied with the version of the novel he had written. He never completed the novel. Towards the end of his life, he began to suffer from dementia. Due to his memory issues, he could no longer follow the plot of the novel, and therefore could not complete it. The manuscript of the novel was placed in an archive at Ransom Center after Garc a M rquez s death. Originally, his family decided not to publish the incomplete novel. However, in 2022, his sons[a] re-read the drafts of the novel, of which there were five. Although Garc a M rquez had requested that his sons ensure the destruction of the novel, they found literary worth in the novel, and chose to edit and release it. GW/stacks.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
- Publisher: Knopf (New York)
- Year: 2024
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.