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GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. No One Writes to the Colonel. Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition. Hardcover. An early collection of short stories from this Nobel Prize winning author of "Love in the Time of Cholera" and his magnum opus "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. An about very good copy with some slight discolorations to the boards in an about very good price clipped dust jacket that has some edge tears, chips, wear, and some foxing to the verso.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. No One Writes to the Colonel. Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition. Fresh silver titles to clean black boards with firm hinges, sharp corners. Red top stain, other edges clean. DJ has very nominal wear to corners, small closed tear to front o/w fresh, VG- DJ. BP/Case
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. No one writes to the Colonel. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Description: , 170 pages First English Edition , spine and lower front corner slightly bumped, clean pages, book in near fine condition , dustwrapper a little rubbed at edges with smalll tear to rear, good condition , black cloth binding, gilt titles to spine , 20cm x 14cm Hardback ISBN: 224005308
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English translation. Near fine with slight bumping to the spine ends and one tip. In bright dust jacket with short tears at top and bottom of front gutter fold and top of rear gutter fold (internally repaired) as well as some minor edge wear.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein. The author's second book to be published in the UK, after 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', which was published in 1970. The book comprises of nine short stories which were originally issued in Colombia as a novella in 1961 (the title story of this collection), and in the short story collection 'Big Mama's Funeral' in 1962. ***Very good in dark grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge of text-block stained dark red by the publisher. Boards clean and unmarked. Extremities of spine slightly rubbed. Corners of front board slightly bumped. Boards slightly rubbed at the edges. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £1.50 net. Extremities of the dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. With a 3cm closed tear to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper, and a 1.5cm closed tear to the top edge of the dustwrapper adjoining the spine. The extremities of the head and tail of the spine and the corners of the dustwrapper slightly worn and rubbed. Tiny loss to the corners of the dustwrapper. No fading to the bright colours of the dustwrapper even on the spine. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright and clean. ***204mm x 140mm. 170 pages. ***'"One Hundred Years of Solitude" was hailed as 'a classic on the grandest scale' by one of Latin America's greatest writers. Gabriel García Márquez is a spellbinding storyteller, a masterly weaver of words, themes and the moods of light and shade. ***As in that bestselling masterpiece, the subject of the title story is this superb collection is life in the decaying Columbian town of Macondo - the cycle of hope and despair, tragedy and comedy, that visit the inhabitants with the regularity of the rains and the heat that dominate their lives. The Colonel, a Quixotic figure burdened with extreme poverty and an asthmatic wife, languishes on faded dreams of his revolutionary past. He cherishes as his one tangible asset a skinny, long-legged fighting cock which for him, and indeed for the whole town, has become the symbol for defiance in the face of despair. ***Other stories tell of town and village life in South America, of the desperately poor and the outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, lost opportunities and present joy. "No One Writes to the Colonel" is a fitting companion volume to "One Hundred Years of Solitude", for here is all the compassion, the wit, the magical invention that established that novel as one of the finest of its time.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of Gabriel García Márquez and Latin American literature. This early Márquez title is becoming increasingly hard to find now, and the dustwrapper is very prone to tears and chipping, which means that presentable copies are even harder to track down. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 170pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly chafed at the spine ends and corner tips with several tiny fractions of surface-loss. Written between 1956-57 and first published in Columbia in 1961, this English-language translation was first used for the 1968 US edition (the first of the author's books to be translated into English), and also used for this UK edition (which was the second of his books to be published in the UK, following 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' a year earlier).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. No One Writes to the Colonel.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition of the Nobel Prize-winning authorâs first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora. Translated by J.S. Bernstein. No One Write to the Colonel was originally published in 1961. The novel is considered by some to be within the realm of magic realism, and it some sense this is true. It contains with its plot magical events. Nonetheless, the novel deviates from the boundaries of this informal genre. The main characters are unnamed, and this portrays a sense of insignificance. Political and financial instability are key, and they corruption of local and national officials build onto the natural angst of the novel.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. No One Writes to the Colonel. Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. Small owner's chop mark on front fly, boards mottled, a good copy in good plus dust jacket with a couple of creased tears.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. 170 pp. 8vo. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine; fine in illustrated dust jacket; a fine copy
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$214.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Impression of the Nobelist's third work of fiction, after Leaf Storm. 8vo: [6],170pp. Publisher's steel-grey finely woven cloth, spine stamped in silver gilt, top edge stained red, illustrated dust jacket printed in green, yellow, and red, priced £1.50. A superb example, virtually As New (and probably unread), in a brilliant jacket marred only by a minute closed tear to top of back panel and hint of rubbing to spine panel's tip. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. "Written between 1956 and 1957 and first published in 1961, the title novella (the book also includes a second, longer novella, Big Mama's Funeral) tells the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a veteran of the Thousand Days' War, who still hopes to receive the pension he was promised some fifteen years earlier. The colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in a small village under martial law, during the years of "La Violencia" in Colombia, when martial law and censorship prevailed. They have lost their only son to political repression. In his memoir Vivir para contarla (Living to Tell the Tale, 2002), García Márquez explained that the story was inspired by his grandfather, who was also a colonel and who never received the pension he was promised. But it's also possible he drew inspiration from his experience of unemployment in 1956 after the newspaper he had been working for shut down, when he witnessed the lives of the many destitute around him. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Marquez (Gabriel Garcia). No one writes to the Colonel. Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original dark brown boards. Dust-jacket, priced £1.50. Marquez's mesmerising collection of short stories depicting the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and the outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Book very good; jacket with a few minor chips, but otherwise very good.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
GARCÍA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.. No One Writes to the Colonel.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1971.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Translated by J.S. Bernstein. Octavo. pp [vi], 170. The second of the author's novels to be published in English.Fine in fine dustwrapper with the red entirely unfaded.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. No One Writes to the Colonel. Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK edition. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket, which has small nicks to the top corners and a tiny bit of wear of the top of the spine. Briefly inscribed on the half-title by the author in 1983.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. No One Writes to the Colonel. Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. Publisher's printed wrappers. Near fine copy in a very good rubbed uncorrected proof state of the dust jacket stating: "Provisional Publication 15th July 1971." The jacket is approximately 1/4-inch taller than the proof, and is worn at the extremities. An uncommon proof in a very scarce dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.