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First edition, first printing, of his most famous novel, a classic work of magical realism, the Latin American Boom, and world literature. To García Márquez's displeasure, the publisher disregarded the cover art created by his friend and instead printed the front wrapper in a ship-and-flowers design. The wrappers were redesigned for later printings at the author's insistence. The first printing of 8,000 copies sold out within a week. The novel was soon translated into dozens of languages, appearing in English in 1970, to great international acclaim. García Márquez received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for his fiction "in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". Octavo. Original white wrappers lettered in black, ship and flower design on front cover in blue and orange. Housed in a custom blue cloth folding box. Text in Spanish. Small splash mark to spine, wrappers bright, negligible rubbing, contents toned, as usual, otherwise clean. A near-fine copy. .

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.