GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.

La Hojarosca.

Bogota: Ediciones- S.L.B. , 1955.

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The author’s first book, inscribed

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Some edge wear to the front and rear panels, some light soiling, overall a bright copy. Garcia Marquez has been quoted as saying that prior to the success of One Hundred Years of Solitude none of his books had sold more than 700 copies. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. A scarce inscribed copy of an important debut.

La Hojarosca was first published in Bogota, Columbia in 1955, later translated into English and published in 1972, as The Leaf Storm. Widely celebrated as the first appearance of Macondo, the fictitious village later celebrated in One Hundred Years of Solitude, La Hojarosca was a testing ground for many of the themes and characters later immortalized in One Hundred Years of Solitude. "Garcia Marquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform" (Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review).