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First edition in English, first printing. The dust jacket is in the second state with a period rather than an exclamation mark ending the front flap blurb. First published in Buenos Aires as Cien años de soledad (1967), this seminal novel in the magical realist genre quickly established the author's international reputation and it remains his best-known work. Provenance: from the collection of the publishing couple Selma Shapiro and Jim Silberman, who met while working at Random House, where he was an editor and she was the vice president of publicity. Their book label is loosely inserted. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green endpapers, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spots to edges, internally clean; jacket unclipped, generally bright, edges a little rubbed, with occasional nick: a fine copy in near-fine jacket. .

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.