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Price: US$100.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST UK EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper edges stained red, 421pp, VG (mild rubbing to board edges, mild water staining to lower front board & board edges, light foxing, soiling & water staining to page edges, v light foxing & prev. owner's name in ink to fep, light water staining to upper edge of ep & rear pastedown, flecks of soiling to ep) in d/w, VG- (4.5 cm closed tear to lower front repaired w/ archival tape, all corners clipped, light to moderate creasing to edges, light water staining to upper edge [primarily rear], light foxing to interior & exterior)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Jonathan Cape, London, 1970.
Price: US$186.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "First published in Great Britain" per publisher's page, no other edition / printing indication. 5-5/8" x 8-3/4", (viii) + 422pp. Printed on off-white alkaline paper and bound in signatures in blue-green paper covered boards. The top corners and top and base of spine are bumped, some age discoloration / fading at top edge of boards, minor shelf wear, and minor soiling to the front panel. Red tinting on top edge. The jacket suffers from noticeable edge wear, with a handful of ca. 1/2" closed tears and some chipping, esp. at the spine and flap folds. Purple border on fropnt cover shows some fading, and there is some delamination about 3" up from the bottom. Jacket is not price clipped, and shows original (baffling, to a foreigner) price of "35s net" and "£1.75 net". Spine is slightly cocked. Binding remains strong. Minor edge soiling. A previous owner's name in ink has been largely but not completely scraped off the front free end paper. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked.
Seller: The People's Co-op Bookstore, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, single faint spot at head of prelims, pp. [viii], 422, crown 8vo, original turqoise boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge pink, dustjacket, slightly nicked at head of backstrip panel with a little rubbing to extremities and a touch of fading to the pink around the backstrip panel, very good.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$214.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression, plus an uncommon uncorrected proof, of García Márquez's first novel following the worldwide success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. 8vo (215 x 130; 209 x 135mm): [6],229,[1]; [6],269,[1]pp. Publisher's Prussian blue paper-covered boards with simulated cloth grain, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained lighter blue; illustrated dust jacket priced £4.50. Virtually pristine and unread, baring several spots to fore-edge and light offsetting to end papers. The uncorrected proof copy, in stiff yellow wrappers printed in black, is equally fine. An ambitious, experimental novel, "repetitious, circular, and perplexing," with "lengthy sentences, some of which run on for pages," reminiscent of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! The novel recounts in six chapters, from various perspectives à la Rash mon, the demise of a malevolent dictator in an unnamed Caribbean country, each chapter a single paragraph of extended sentences retelling the story. (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Cape, 1970.
Price: US$263.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jonathan Cape, London, 1970. Cloth hardcover,impression of the First UK Edition, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Turquoise cloth (scratched-front and back side), spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket has tears on front ends and on spine spine,small missing parts,spotted text-block.
Seller: OPEN DOOR BOOKSHOP, Roma, RM, Italy
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. 422. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, red topstain: fore-edge with a couple light, small stains. In the three color illustrated dust jacket with price intact on the front flap: spine head minimally rubbed, moderate age toning, colors remain brilliant. Withal, an attractive, presentable copy of the. First printing of the first English edition of Rabassa's translation for Harper & Row. Marquez's fantastic, intricate melange of truth and mirages can now be viewed as the harbinger for all who followed.Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Garcia Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in Spanish in Buenos Aires in 1967. One of the most significant works in world literature. Original cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A better than very good book with some tape marks to front paste-down in a very good and unclipped dust jacket with some wear and a few nicks to top edge. Small hole to lower panel fore-edge with a touch of fading in places and a faint and small area of damp marking to bottom edge of dust jacket verso. A very good copy.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
GARCÍA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.. One Hundred Years of Solitude.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1970.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Octavo. pp [viii], 422. The book which launched a thousand magic realists.Bookplate on front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap). Very near fine in near-fine dustwrapper just a little nicked and rubbed at edges. A sharp copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1970.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition of the authorâs masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora. "One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Colombia, 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). At the conclusion of the 1970's this book was voted by the editors of The New York Times Book Review to be not only the best book published in the last ten years but the book most likely to still be read one hundred years from then.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Marquez (Gabriel Garcia). One Hundred Years of Solitude. Jonathan Cape, London, 1970.
Price: US$756.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 35s/?ú1.75. A very nice first UK edition of this famous multi-generational story by Colombian writer and Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garc?a M?írquez, published three years after the South American edition. A near fine example.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition. 422 pp. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt along spine; fine. Illustrated dust jacket with light cockling near foot of spine that might be consistent in the British first editions, else near fine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.