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García Marquéz, Gabriel. El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba. Aguirre Editor [Americalee, Buenos Aires], Medellin, 1961.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the author's second book. 90, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The second novel by Gabriel García Marquéz (1927-2014), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982. Translated into English by S. Bernstein as No One Writes to the Colonel (1971). Printed wrappers. Spine and textblock somewhat toned, foot of spine rubbed. Very good copy of a fragile book First edition of the author's second book.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. Aguirre Editor, 1961.

Price: US$2200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Text in Spanish. First edition: Aguirre (Medellin), 1961, but printed September 17, 1961, at Americalee in Buenos Aires. 90pp. In very good- condition. Binding sturdy, pages tanned, free of markings. Wraps should be handled with care at the hinges: glue attaching wraps to spine may be fragile. Gray/red printed French wraps, slightly oversize, are creased/bumped around the corners, tanned and rubbed, and a bump to the spine has produced a 1.5cm closed tear to the front panel at the hinge. Very slight foxing; a few darker spots to top edge, which are superficial. Very scarce. From a personal collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

García Márquez, Gabriel. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. Aguirre Editor, 1961.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Medellín, Aguirre Editor, 17 de septiembre de 1961. Impreso en Buenos Aires, en Américalee Editora. 90 páginas. Encuadernación rústica, cubierta enmarcada con doble guarda de ondas y títulos a dos tintas. Primera Edición.

Seller: Apartirdecero, CAPITAL FEDERAL, BUE, Argentina

GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba [No One Writes To The Colonel]. Aguirre Editor, Medellin, 1961.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Text in Spanish. A faint stain along the spine, page edges browned, still a very good copy of this fragile little rarity, the author's second book, a novella which was the title story of his first book published in the U.S. A clean and fresh copy of the Columbian Nobel Prize-winner's second book. Basis for a 1999 film starring Salma Hayek.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

García Márquez, Gabriel.. El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba.. Aguirre, Editor,, Medellín, 1961.

Price: US$3898.02 + shipping

Description: 13.8x20. 90pp.2h. Wrappers. Español. Book seller's stamp on title page. The covers and spine are generally very clean; there is light foxing on the lower part of the back cover, and a stain on the inside of the folding flap, but this is not visible on the outside. Some toning of the paper of the body of the book - this is a copy that has been in Caracas for sixty years. Over all, near fine, and certainly the best copy we have seen, and one of the best that we have seen photographed. 'El Coronel' is the Colombian writer's second novel, and the one that would estanblish his fame as South America's finest author, although full recognition would come with the publication of 'Cien Años de Soledad in 1967. García Márquez wrote the book in Paris, although he rewrote it nine times before he was fully satisfied, finishing it in 1957. Two thousand copies of this first edition were printed. Of these some 500 (according to other sources 800) were distributed for sale, while the author took two huindred to sell or give away (this copy may be one of these, since it comes from the library of the Venezuelan poet Artajerjes Muñoz, who was an acqaintance of the novelist), while the rest were sold off to a dealer in cumin in the interior of Colombia, who took them apart and used the pages to wrap his produce. WorldCat records no copies in public libraries. .

Seller: Carmichael Alonso Libros, Cantabria, Spain

García Márquez, Gabriel.. El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba.. Aguirre, Editor,, Medellín, 1961.

Price: US$3898.02 + shipping

Description: 13.8x20. 90pp.2h. Rústica. Español Sello de librería en la portada. Cubiertas y lomo muy limpios - se aprecia una tenue huella de óxido en la parte inferior de la cubierta posterior, y una mancha dentro de la solapa (en el interior), que no es visible por la parte exterior. El papel del interior del libro está ligeramente oscurecido - se puede considerar 'toning' debido al papel que se empleó en un ejemplar que ha pasado sesenta años en Caracas. En conjunto es muy buen ejemplar - near fine - y el mejor que hemos tenido en nuestra librería, y uno de los mejores que hayamos visto aunque sea en fotografía. 'El Coronel' es la segunda novela del colombiano y la que estableció su fama como narrador, aunque el reconocimiento pleno no llegaría hasta 'Cien Años de Soledad' en 1967. Márquez escribió el libro en París, bueno, parece que la escribió nueve veces antes de que quedara satisfactoria, terminando en enero de 1957. En esta primera edición de 1961 se tiraron 2000 ejemplares, de los cuales unos 500 (o 800) fueron vendido por la editorial, el autor se llevó otros 200 para vender o regalar (es muy posible que el nuestro sea uno de estos), mientras el resto fue saldado a un vendedor de comino del interior de la República Colombiana, para que los desguazara y envolviera el grano con las hojas del libro. No encontramos ningún ejemplar en WorldCat.

Seller: Carmichael Alonso Libros, Cantabria, Spain