Books

Harper & Row: New York, 1968. First edition, first issue jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph. Near fine book with some light spotting to the top edge. The jacket is price-clipped and has a little wear to the extremities, a couple of closed tears and a small scrape to the rear panel. No fading to the jacket's spine; the gilt lettering on spine is bright and unfaded; no inscriptions or writing or other defects. Although not perfect, a very good or better copy of the first issue.

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.