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Harper and Row. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. 1970 Harper & Row hard cover - 1st edition 2nd printing - First Edition stated on copyright page - number line of last page starts with 2 - period rather than exclamation point at end of 1st paragraph on front flap of dust jacket - some wear to edges of dust jacket (now in mylar cover - minor staining to top closed page edge - owner's name inside front cover - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - an important work of world literature - enjoy

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.

The true first edition was published by Editorial Sudamericana in 1967, in Spanish. It can be identified by the green and black cover with golden lettering and a stylized rooster. The presence of text 'Primera edición' and the lack of further impression or edition statements also indicate a first edition. The UK first edition was in 1970.