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Buenos Aires: Editorial Suamerica, 1970. First Argentinian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the front free endpaper. From the library of Gregory Rabassa, with his signature. Rabassa was the translator of La Hojaraca into English and Cien Anos de Soledad, among others. He was a translator of the works of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Márquez. On the advice of Cortázar, García Márquez waited three years for Rabassa to schedule translating One Hundred Years of Solitude. Garcia Marquez later declared Rabassa's translation to be superior to the Spanish original. In good condition. La Hojarosca was first published in Bogota, Columbia in 1955, later translated into English and published in 1972, as The Leaf Storm. Widely celebrated as the first appearance of Macondo, the fictitious village later celebrated in One…

Leaf Storm and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. First published in 1955, Leaf Storm was García Márquez’s first novella and forms part of the body of work that led to his eventual recognition as one of the foremost authors of the 20th century. The book includes three short stories: 'Leaf Storm', 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World' and 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings'.