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A solid, well-preserved copy of the stated 1970 1st American edition of this titanic achievement in 20th century Latin American literature . And in the 1st state dustjacket, with an exclamation point rather than a period at the end of the 1st paragraph on the front flap. Tight and VG+ (light spotting along the top edge and just a bit of minor soiling to the bottom-edge) in a bright, price-intact ($7.95), VG dustjacket, with one or two tiny closed tears and a very minor level of creasing nd wear along the rear edges. Thick octavo, the masterful translation from Marquez's native Spanish into English by Gregory Rabassa, the iconic dustjacket design by Guy Fleming.

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.