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First American edition, first printing of M�rquez's magnum opus, one of the most widely acclaimed novels of the twentieth century. In the second dust jacket with a period at the end of the front flap's first paragraph. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Publisher's original green cloth boards, lettered in gilt; pp. (viii), 422, [1]. No numberline at the last page, as called for on the first printing. A very good or better copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, minimal shelfwear to boards. Owner's bookplate to flyleaf, name and date to half-title with a small smudge, else internally clean and fine. Jacket remains bright and vivid, with light shelfwear to extremities and a few closed tears, one small unnecessary tape reinforcement to verso, trace of rubbing and dampstaining along the bottom of the rear panel. An attractive copy, protected in archival mylar.

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.