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First edition in English, first printing, in the first state dust jacket, with an exclamation mark rather than a period ending the front flap blurb. First published in Buenos Aires as Cien años de soledad (1967), this seminal novel quickly established the author's international reputation and remains his best-known work. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device on front cover in gilt, green endpapers, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Kroch & Brentano bookseller's ticket on rear panel of jacket. Trivial rubbing to extremities, faint foxing to top edge; spine panel of unclipped jacket faintly sunned, a few nicks, shallow chips and two closed tears to top edge: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.

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.