Books

First Edition in English, First State, of one of the most notable, acclaimed and beloved novels of the post-war era, the foremost example of 'magic realism'. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth, original first state (with exclamation point) pictorial dust jacket. The book is indeed fine, the beautiful dust jacket equally so: not price-clipped, and a stunning example. A true collector's 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.