One Hundred Years of Solitude.

by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa

$20,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

New York: Harper Row, Publishers, 1970. First American edition of the author's magnum opus and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Mark from his friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez 91." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Author photograph by Rodrigo Moya. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. 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. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this magic realism , the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets (NYPL Books of the Century 31).

• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
• Year: 1970
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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