Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for Gabriel García Marquez ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Classic: A Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' design of leaves with yellow sides to compliment the dustjacket. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Harper & Row Publishers, 1970.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a laid in signature. This First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in great shape and is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's green cloth. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Harper & Row, New York, 1970.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed "88, Mexico" and signed by the author on the title page. Stated first edition. Hardcover, bound in cloth with a first issue dust jacket, exclamation point on the front flap. The jacket, price intact, is well rubbed along the edges with small chips at the spine ends and corners and verso tape repair/reinforcement along the folds. The binding with some mottling along the edges of the front board; text bright and unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Description: 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 listÃsimas, 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 Alarcà n, was a friend of Garcia Marquez's in Colombia. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. "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).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude.. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1970.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the dedication page and additionally lengthily signed by the translator on the title page as follows, "They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation Gregory Rabassa. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A unique example. "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).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.