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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL. TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1970.
First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145926
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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCíA .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez’s masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 144678
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's In Evil Hour; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to his legendary Literary Agent Carmen Balcells
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL.
In Evil Hour.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1979.
First edition of “this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author’s later flowering and greatness” (Boston Globe). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his legendary literary agent in the year of publication on the second title page, “Para Carmen, Eres mi todo. Gabo Rome 17 Oct. 1979.” The recipient, Carmen Balcells was a literary agent of Spanish-language authors from Spain and Latin America, including six Nobel Prize–winning authors. She led her agency from 1956 to 2000, during which time she was one of the driving forces behind the 1960s boom of Latin American literature. Authors who have published with Balcells have dedicated novels to her and included her as characters in her work; she is praised as “one of the most powerful and influential women in Spanish letters” long list of prominent authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, Clarice Lispector, Nélida Piñon, Miguel Delibes, Alvaro Mutis, Camilo José Cela, Vicente Aleixandre, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jose Luis Sampedro, Terenci Moix, Juan Carlos Onetti, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral, Josep Maria Castellet, Juan Goytisolo, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Juan Marsé, Eduardo Mendoza, Isabel Allende, Rosa Montero, Gustavo Martin Garzo, Nélida Pinõn. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. An exceptional association.
Price: $8,500.00 Item Number: 142798
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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Lengthily inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL. TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1970.
First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, warmly and lengthily inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “Por la mas grande y guapa de todos las Beatrices listísimas, con un abrizo estrangulaon Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1971.” Which translates into English as, “For the best, smartest, and most beautiful of all Beatrices, with a very tight hug Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1971.” The recipient, Beatriz Alarcón, was a friend of Garcia Marquez’s in Colombia. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 143912
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Rare First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL.
La Hojarasca.
Bogota: Ediciones- S.L.B 1955.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by artist Cecilia Porras. In very good condition, name to the title page.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 141457
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Signed Limited First Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Signed by Gregory Rabassa, Alastair Reid and Rafael Ferrer
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Limited Editions Club 1970.
Signed limited edition of Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half calf over Japanese paper boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with drawings and oil paintings reproduced in lithography. Boldly signed by Gregory Rabassa, Alastair Reid and Rafael Ferrer. With an original lithograph laid in. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Introduction by Alastair Reid. Fine in a fine slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 139620
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL.
La Hojarasca.
Bogota: Ediciones- S.L.B. 1955.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by artist Cecilia Porras. In very good condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138058
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“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.": First English Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
London: Jonathan Cape 1970.
First English edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137048
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Rare German translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA.
Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Koln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1982.
Early German edition of the author’s masterpiece which is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the dedication page, “Para Patricia, del amigo, Gabo 83.” Translated by Curt Meyer-Clason. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138432
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The February 1967 issue of Eco Magazine; containing the first appearance of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien Años de Soledad
MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA.
Cien Años de Soledad. [En Revista De La Cultura De Occidente. Febrero De 1967].
Bogota, Colombia: Librería Buchholz 1967.
First edition of the February 1967 issue of Revista De La Cultura De Occidente containing the first appearance of a fragment of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Cien Años de Soledad. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Published between between May 1960 and June 1984, Colombian cultural magazine Eco was instrumental in the development of Colombian literary culture. The eclectic publication exposed Colombian readers to a broad variety of Western (primarily German and American) literature and philosophy and brought together a generation of intellectuals who came to identify with a humanist approach to art and culture. The fragment of Marquez’s Cien Anos marks the first appearance of the work, subsequently published in book form in Buenos Aires. In near fine condition. Exceedingly rare.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 138401