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True First Edition/First Printing in wraps in the original spanish; Near Fine. A beautiful copy of the true first edition of the now classic Garcia Marquez novel; this book first published in softcover in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1967; the first hardcover edition did not appear until 1970. Housed in a gorgeous custom clamshell box by Octavaye. This copy is in near fine condition with a solid, tight binding, a bright and sharp front cover, and clean white pages throughout; the book does show some light rubbing and creasing to the spine and edges, and some light foxing to the top of the page edges; a remarkably well preserved copy. Highly presentable and collectible, a bucket list item for the Garcia Marquez fan or the classic 20th century Lit collector! Not remaindered, not ex-library; will ship carefully wrapped and in a sturdy box."Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover…

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.