One Hundred Years of Solitude.

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment”: First Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Translator Gregory Rabassa

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.

Item Number: 4109

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Inscribed and dated by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the dedication page. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Also signed by the translator on the title page, who has transcribed the line from this novel as follows, “It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment Gregory Rabassa.” Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example of this landmark novel, seldom found signed and inscribed.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Columbia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this 'magic realism', the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets" (NYPL Books of the Century 31).

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