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A stunning first American edition, second state copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's widely acclaimed novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, translated into English and in the original unclipped dustwrapper. A stunning copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's acclaimed novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This is the first American edition translated from the Spanish into English by Gregory Rabassa and in the second state (with a full-stop rather than an exclamation mark on the dustwrapper) in an unclipped dustwrapper.One Hundred Years of Solitude is a significant multi-generational story that represents the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s and is recognized as one of the most significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon and in world literature. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, incredibly smart. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. In the original unclipped, second state dustwrapper (without the exclamation mark). There is some light bumping to the head and tail of the dustwrapper. Near Fine.

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.