translated gregory rabassa (29 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 265 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 432 pages. 7.68x5.08x1.22 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 96 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. First Thus. Crease on cover.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 265 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 96 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Literature, fiction, Humor) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Bard printing. Mass market paperback. 251pp. Pages age-toned and foxed, wrappers lightly soiled with modest edgewear, very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. 2nd Printing. 307pp, smaller octavo hardcover in dj. boards lightly worn but clean, tight binding, light toning to endpapers, owner sticker to upper ffep corner, interior text clean. DJ covers mildly faded and toned along spine and fore-edges, dj covers clean, no tears.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 183pp. One morning slanderous posters start appearing all over the town, revealing family secrets and maligning individuals. Ghosts of the past reappear, along with old feuds and infidelities. Torrential rains then flood the town and chaos is everywhere. Neighbors suspect each other yet no one knows who is responsible. Finally, a boy is made the scapegoat and tragedy ensues. Condition: A good copy. Whilst the book remains clean and in strong readable condition, the corners suffer some bumping and there are several small scuffs to the wrapper's spine (towards the rear joint) which have tanned a little. However, still a decent copy.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 279 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine orange with light green and black lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including few soiling smudges and minor edge wear. Slight age toning to the flaps. Boards have slight wear including faint sunning and light rubbing to the head/tail edges. Slight cocking to the spine. Text block has slight wear mild age toning and light soiling to the edges. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to Myra Sklarew. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column U, ND-U. 1403577. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. ***Near fine in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Top edge of page block slightly foxed. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages clean. Paper stock lightly tanned. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £16.99. The dustwrapper is complete with no discernible faults. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper crisp and bright. 242mm x 164mm. vi prelims plus 265 printed pages. ***'It has fallen to Lucius Valerius Quincius, reluctant supreme magistrate of the city of Tarcisis in Lusitania, to hold back the forces of chaos. In the twilight years of the Roman empire, with the forbidding sect of Christianity mushrooming within the city walls, and the barbarian Moorish hordes threatening without, this man must uphold the standard of moral courage in a disintegrating world. ***"A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening" is the latest winner of Mobil's Pegasus Prize for Literature. First awarded in 1977, this prize recognizes distinguished work from countries whose literature is rarely translated into English.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the first UK edition, in near fine collectable condition. ***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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. The book was first published in the USA by Harper & Row the preceding year, and originally published in Spanish under the title 'El otoño del patriarca' in 1975. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked - top and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. Top edge of page block stained blue by the publisher, just slightly faded. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good, with a gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Very light stain to the outer margin of p17, not affecting the text, otherwise internal pages are clean throughout. The paper stock is slightly tanned. There is a very light production crease to some pages of the first gathering, affecting p20-36 - hardly noticeable. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £4.50 (many copies of this title are price-clipped by the publisher and re-priced with a sticker). The dustwrapper is complete with no loss and no creases or tears. Orange spine lettering just slightly faded. Dustwrapper otherwise bright. ***224mm x 146mm. 229 pages. ***'First the vultures arrive. The revolutionaries burst into the crumbling presidential palace of a modern Latin American country to find the rotting corpse of the dictator whose shadow has loomed over the advancing corruption of their country for almost a century. ***"The Autumn of the Patriarch" is an extraordinary achievement - a book with the same spell-binding force that established "One Hundred Years of Solitude" as a masterpiece and Marquez as one of the great writers of our time. With each rolling incantation the tyrant is invoked: lover and son, puppet and symbol, man and monster. Image after image of brilliant clarity arises out of the resonant richness and potency of Marquez's language superbly translated by Gregory Rabassa.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its dustwrapper in nice bright condition. García Márquez's first novel following the worldwide success of "One Hundred Years of Solitude". A good reading copy of the true UK first edition. ***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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Keith Batcheller [Cover illustration] (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, printed from the American sheets. A Bantam Book - February 1988 stated on the printer's page. Although a first UK edition, the book is in an American style binding. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. ***Near fine in black paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine, and titles in gilt. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Boards clean and unmarked. Page block edges clean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Clean pages throughout. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's price of £12.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no chips or tears - just very slight rubbing and loss to the surface colour at the top of the spine and top of the back foldover. No creases or tears. Very light edge wear and the spine is slightly faded. Dustwrapper bright. ***422 pages. 236 mm x 160 mm. ***'"Showdown" is the story of a city in the hinterland of Brazil's cacao region, Tocaia Grande. Born at the start of this century, when honour took precedence over law, and courage came before power, Tocaio Grande had a renegade beginning; in its grittiness, violence, pettiness and feel of dirt and blood, not unlike the birth of the American West. "Showdown" is the most daring novel in Jorge Amado's long and distinguishes career, In it he opens his heart and leaves us with a tale that will live long in our memories.' ]Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***'Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 Aug 1912 - 6 Aug 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" in 1976. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Jorge Amado also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo as a member of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) between 1947 and 1951. In "Showdown", Amado returns to some of his earliest concerns, confronting the historical criminality of Brazilian society, and aiming to show how Brazil has buried its (criminal) past. In fact Showdown is almost an historical continuation of Amado's novel The Violent Land, first published in 1943. It contains several references to the battles between cacao landowners described in that earlier novel.' [Wiki]***A first impression of the first UK edition, in nice condition. ***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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge of text-block stained pale blue by the publisher. Boards clean and unmarked. Corners sharp. Edges of spine slightly rubbed. Very small black ink stamp: "B.S." to top of rear pastedown. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine price-clipped colour-illustrated dustwrapper. No tears. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright and clean. ***204mm x 134mm. 183 pages. ***Contents: The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother; The Sea of Lost Time; Death Constant Beyond Love; The Third Resignation; The Other Side of Death; Eva is Inside Her Cat; Dialogue with the Mirror; Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers; Eyes of a Blue Dog; The Woman Who Came Back at Six O'Clock; Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses; The Night of the Curlews. ***'This collection of a novella and eleven short stories was written over a span of three decades. In the title story, The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother, a young girl accidentally burns down her grandmother's house and is forced into a life of slavery and prostitution to repay her debt. The atmosphere evoked is reminiscent of lives stifled by past glories and the indefinite, bleak future that Márquez painted so vividly in his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. As in all his work, Marquez continues to explore the real and the unreal worlds. They are worlds of contrast: sea and desert, time and timelessness, reality and illusion. But these worlds are inseparable--- ' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its dustwrapper, in bright condition. Of interest to collectors of Gabriel García Márquez and Latin American literature. ***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.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of the English translation. Inscribed, signed and dated by Gregory Rabassa, the translator, on the title page. José Sarney de Araújo Costa born 24 April 1930 is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and writer who served as the 31st president of Brazil from 1985 to 1990. "Adventure and fantasy meet for a lot of excitement on the high seas. "Aboard his boat the Chita Verde, Captain Cristorio sails among archipelagos of islands and the immensity of the ocean, searching for his beloved lost in the seas years before. Along the way he encounters mysterious creatures, shipwrecked sailors and abandoned islands. From Cristorio's baptism at sea in a hurricane to his end fleeing from the jaws of a shark, this novel mixes legend and beauty in a story of haunting beauty.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition in English. First impression of the first US edition, and the first edition in English, with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 78 79 80 81 82 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and "First Edition" stated to publisher's copyright prelims page. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge of text-block stained red by the publisher. Fore-edge of text-block rough edged [untrimmed], as is common with US editions. Boards clean and unmarked. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine, with clean pages. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, and retains the original publisher's price of $8.95. There is a 2.5cm shallow closed tear, and associated crease which is nearly a shallow chip to the top edge of the rear panel of the dustwrapper. Spine, front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright and clean. ***214mm x 148mm. 183 pages. ***Contents: The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother; The Sea of Lost Time; Death Constant Beyond Love; The Third Resignation; The Other Side of Death; Eva is Inside Her Cat; Dialogue with the Mirror; Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers; Eyes of a Blue Dog; The Woman Who Came Back at Six O'Clock; Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses; The Night of the Curlews. ***'This new collection of short fiction by one of the world's greatest living writers includes a novella and eleven short stories an represents some of García Márquez's earlier work of the 1950s as well as stories written in the 1960s and 1970s. The interest, audience and critical reception of Garcia Marquez continues to grow, and in these stories one finds the uniquely original qualities that have made his work famous throughout the world - myth and mystery, pathos and passion, imagination and reality, characters of magic and truth. Brilliantly translated by Gregory Rabassa, this is the first time these marvelous stories have appeared in book form in English.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first US edition, and first edition in English in book-form, complete in its dustwrapper in very nice, bright collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of Gabriel García Márquez and Latin American literature. ***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.

Glazed Green/Black Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Neil Packer (illustrator). First published in Argentina in 1967 under the title Cien Amos de Soledad, first published in Great Britain 1970, the text of this edition follows that of the 1970 edition, with minor emendations and the anglicisation of some terms, (x), 401pp, illustrated with 9 colour plates by Neil Packer, decorated endpapers, glazed green/blacl cloth, gilt illustration to upper board, gilt and white lettering to spine, one small mark to upper board, barely noticeable, paper-covered slipcase with colour illustration to one side. Near Fine. Size: 8vo. Modern Fiction.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. The author's first book to be published in the UK - reprinted in hardback in 1982 to coincide with Marquez being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The second reprint of the first UK edition - published in 1982. The book was first published in the UK in 1970, and reprinted in 1973. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. The 1982 printing was the last to retain the original format and dustwrapper design - published in a darker blue cloth compared with the two earlier printings. ***An unusually near fine copy in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no previous ownership inscriptions - just some light rubbed out pencil marks on the front free endpaper. Interior pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price-clipped. The dustwrapper is otherwise complete, with no discernible faults. No creases, chips or tears. Just the lightest of rubbing at the extremities. Unusually, there is none of the fading to the bright colours of the dustwrapper including the spine. Dustwrapper bright and clean. With the "Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature" sticker on the front panel. ***225mm x 140mm. 422 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.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'"One Hundred Years of Solitude" (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the (fictitious) town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in literature. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movements. Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. The novel, considered to be García Márquez's magnum opus, remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon and in world literature.' (Wiki) ***A beautiful near fine example of the third printing of the first UK edition, complete in the original dustwrapper in fabulous collectable condition. This 1982 printing in hardback, published to coincide with Marquez being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is very uncommon. ***We have never handled such a clean copy of this work before. *** Of interest to collectors of Gabriel García Márquez and Latin American literature. ***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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. A second printing of the author's first book to be published in the UK. The book was first published in the UK in 1970, and reprinted in 1973 (this edition). Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No serious bumps or creases - tail of spine just slightly creased. Corner tips sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean, with top edge stained red by the publisher - still beautifully clean and unfaded (see scans). Internally also near fine with no previous ownership inscriptions. Pages clean with no foxing - just light offsetting to the endpapers. No creases or tears. Please note there is a small impression to the front free endpaper (seems to be from a staple - perhaps a previously enclosed clipping) that affects the first few pages slightly - not very noticeable (please see scans). ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price-clipped. The dustwrapper shows hardly any faults - the extremities just slightly rubbed and creased. There is a small closed tear at the top edge of the front panel near the spine, otherwise it is in beautiful condition. No fading to the bright colours of the dustwrapper, even on the spine! Dustwrapper bright and clean. ***222mm x 145mm. 422 pages. ***'"One Hundred Years of Solitude" (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the (fictitious) town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in literature. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movements. Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. The novel, considered to be García Márquez's magnum opus, remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon and in world literature.' (Wiki) ***A second printing of the first UK edition of this landmark work of Latin American literature, in beautiful collectible condition. Copies of this 1973 printing and the first printing from 1970 are extremely hard to find in such nice condition. They are in exactly the same format, and the dustwrappers are very prone to tears and chipping. This copy is very attractive. A collector's copy. ***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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Grove Press, Inc, New York. 1969. 352 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light soil and some closed tears and light shelfwear present to the edges of the DJ). Bound in full cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The reissue of this 1969 translation of a Spanish tour-de-force should captivate those who prize the elegant lyricism and complexity of Latin American fiction. Eschewing political dogma, Goytisolo's ( Forbidden Territory ) BIP theme--explored in styles ranging from stream-of-consciousness to those imitative of bureaucratic memoranda--is exile and expatriation. The hero returns from Paris to Goytisolo's native Barcelona after ten years' absence, confronting the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and his ruptured relationship to Catholicism and machismo culture. Patience is required to navigate Goytisolo's often serpentine sentences, many of which consume several pages. But the prose, presented here in a luxuriant translation, attains hypnotic, incantatory powers. Its density is remarkably evocative: referring to one servant, for example, the narrator notes that she was "less self-abnegating, however, his Aunt Mercedes would remind them, than that other legendary maid who after an existence of privation . . . Left the entire amount of her savings to that scornful grandfather of his who had exploited her during her lifetime." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 8vo. dark blue cloth hardback in unclipped dust jacket designed by Kenneth Miyamoto. 281pp. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Faint foxing to endpapers and untrimmed foredge. Dust jacket edges with a few small chips and closed tears. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. (Shelf 2) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. ***Very good in forest-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge of text-block stained green by the publisher. Boards clean and unmarked. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Internally near fine. There is a very small period 'Foyles' book-shaped booksellers label to bottom corner of front pastedown.No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £1.95 net. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. 2.5cm closed tear to top inner edge of rear dustwrapper flap. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Dustwrapper bright. ***146 pages. 204 mm x 138 mm. ***Stories: Leaf Storm; The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World; A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles; The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship; Monologue of isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo; Nabo. ***'Leaf Storm' is the first novella Gabriel García Márquez ever wrote. He began it when he was nineteen and it was published eight years later. It is set in Macondo, the town already familiar to readers of the fabulous One Hundred Years of Solitude, and covers the flux of its fortunes between 1903 and 1928. Three narrators - father, daughter and grandson - recall the town's long feud with an eccentric, grass-eating French doctor who once refused to tend some wounded men. When the doctor hangs himself, the townspeople will not let him be buried. It is left to the old colonel, whose life was once saved by the strange physician, to dissuade them from their bitter revenge. ***The six shorter stories in this volume, written in more recent years, are all marvelously original. One story is about a drowned man whose magnificent appearance awakens the inhabitants of a fishing village to the meanness of their own lives; others tell of the strange last voyage of a ghost ship and of the poor couple who find a fallen angel on the beach. ***Displaying both the earlier and later styles of Gabriel García Márquez, the maturing of his imagination, Leaf Storm is further testimony to the genius of a brilliant myth-maker, a master fabulist.' (Quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition very hard to find in its original dustwrapper in collectable condition. An uncommon book now in first edition. ***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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Small water stain on top corner of title page. Good clean copy. Text is clear. Slight damage to top of spine. Hinge is firm.

Harper & Row. New York. 1970. Early reprint. Hardback with DW. The wrapper is NOT price-clipped, but there is no price to front flap, no other dates, no mention of Book of the Month Club and no explanation mark to end of first paragraph to front flap of wrapper. Slight shelf wear to edges of boards, top edge of pages slightly spotted, ownership name otherwise a clean and sound copy in partially sunned wrapper that has signs of wear to extremities but is still bright.

First American edition of the author's magnum opus and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Mark from his friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez 91." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Author photograph by Rodrigo Moya. Rare and desirable signed and 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).

First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the 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).