EL CORONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL - INSCRIBED TO CLAUDIA DE LA ESPRIELLA

by Gabriel García Márquez

$3,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

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Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1968. Second Argentine Edition and third Spanish language edition overall, following Colombia and Mexico . An early edition of the author's highly-regarded 1961 novella, written between 1956-57 while he lived in Paris. This copy was originally owned by Ramiro de la Espriella 1921-2015 , a lawyer, politician, and career journalist from Cartagena, Colombia, who was both a lifelong friend

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