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New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First American edition of the author's most celebrated novel. First printing. Octavo, original green cloth. Fine in a fine first issue dust jacket (with the exclamation point on front flap). Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.

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.