Books

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition (and first edition in English), in first state dustwrapper. Fine in about fine and bright first issue dustwrapper with the exclamation point, with a small and unnecessary internal repair at the top flap fold. As nice a copy as we've seen in recent years.

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.