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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970 Stated first edition (American), first printing without the number line on bottom back page, in the second issue dust jacket, lacking the exclamation mark at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap. A tiny bump to bottom back corner and light rubbing to spine ends and corners, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear/crease to bottom back edge near the flap-fold, a short closed tear/crease to foot of back spine fold, a tiny closed tear to upper front flap, and minor rubbing to extremities.

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.