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Very good proof copy in proof dustwrapper. The book is tight and remarkably free of creases. The fore edge of the text block is a little discoloured with a few spots of foxing. The card wrappers are in excellent shape with very minimal chafing and no loss. The rear lead corner has been lightly creased. Publisher's promotional label pasted to front cover dated April. The dustwrapper is oversized with some chafing evident. Chipping and closed tears to the edges. The top of the spine panel has been most severely affected with some loss. Part of the title has been lost. The dustwrapper is clipped but marked 'Proof Copy Provisional publication date April 16 1970. Despite these faults a very scarce item in proof dustwrapper. Photographs available on request.

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.