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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 1-422 pp. Green cloth with the publisher's device in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Our copy's dust jacket contains the exclamation point, the less common variant. Ahearn APG 002c. The author's masterpiece, a landmark work of literature widely regarded as the finest Latin American novel and a cornerstone work in the style of magical realism. Light foxing to the top textblock, two chips to the cloth on the front joint; jacket with light edge wear and a faint touch of foxing to its reverse.

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.

The true first edition was published by Editorial Sudamericana in 1967, in Spanish. It can be identified by the green and black cover with golden lettering and a stylized rooster. The presence of text 'Primera edición' and the lack of further impression or edition statements also indicate a first edition. The UK first edition was in 1970.