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Octavo, 422pp. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Second printing of the first U. S. edition, with the words "First edition" on the copyright page, and the number line on the last blank leaf reading "70 71 72 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2" (first printings lack the number line entirely). SIGNED by Marquez and dated in the year of publication ("'70") on the title page. A crisp, clean copy, with an imperceptibly faint dampstain to the bottom corner margin, only notable on the verso of the book's dust jacket and very faintly on the boards. Still at least very good, with the contents tight and fresh. Second state dust jacket (with period at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap) fresh and lovely, but for the noted tidemark on the verso and a small unnecessary clear tape repair at the base of the spine, presenting beautifully in a clear jacket protector; near fine. Genuine autographed examples of Marquez's masterpiece--particularly those with contemporary inscriptions--have become scarce. Though a second printing, and with noted minor flaws, still a desirable example of the author's best book.

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.