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First edition, first printing in the preferred issue of the jacket with the "!" error on the front flap. [viii], 422, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, faint staining to bottom edge of textblock. Former owner's name to front free endpaper, small stain to page 355 with accompanying tidemark to bottom margin of the following two leaves. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial fading to spine panel, toning to flaps, repair to crown and modest damp staining to verso. Housed in a custom slipcase. A very nice copy of the Colombian author's best known work.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, and it is considered Márquez's magnum opus.