GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

New York: Harper & Row , 1970.

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"Because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth": First Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Translator Gregory Rabassa

First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Inscribed and dated with a drawing of a flower by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the dedication page. Also signed by the translator Gregory Rabassa, who has transcribed the last line of the novel as follows, "Because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth Gregory Rabassa." Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with only light wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional copy of this landmark novel, seldom found inscribed.

"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).