'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to ...Show synopsis'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and his strong-willed wife, Ursula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquiades excites Aureliano Buendia's father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. Through plagues of insomnia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendia household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds...This new edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most celebrated novel is published to coincide with celebrations to mark the 80th birthday of this Nobel Prize winning author in 2007.Hide synopsis
Description:Ferrer, Rafael. Fine. No Jacket. Signed by Illustrator(s)...Ferrer, Rafael. Fine. No Jacket. Signed by Illustrator(s) Signed by Translator Greggory Rabassa, Illustrator Rafael Ferrer, and by Writer Alastair Reid who wrote the introduction. With an original lithograph by Ferrer laid in. 4to. 1/4 leather by Robert Burlen and Son, slipcase has light wear and is soiled at one corner. Cloth cover boards are clean, interior pages are bright and unmarked.
Description:Near Fine. Quarter brown leather and buckram over boards, gilt...Near Fine. Quarter brown leather and buckram over boards, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; brown paper-covered slipcase; pp. xii, [2], 348, [3] (colophon). Number 422 from an edition limited to 2000 copies, signed by Rabassa, Ferrer, and Reid on the colophon. Includes numerous b/w illustrations in text, 8 full-color lithographic reproductions of oil paintings, plus an original lithograph laid in. Previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down, else fine, without flaw. As always with the Limited Editions Club--a lavish production.
Description:Rafael Ferrer. Fine in a Fine slipcase, still in the original...Rafael Ferrer. Fine in a Fine slipcase, still in the original shipping box. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-1/8") bound with sides of natural straw-colored, nubby-textured Chinese silk overlapped by top-grain aniline imported leather; 384 pages. Preface by Alastair Reid, translation by Gregory Rabassa. Illustrated by Rafael Ferrer with 8 full-page color plates, 25 black-and-white drawings, and an ORIGINAL GRAPHIC hand-printed at the Water street Press on Arches paper laid in loosely at the rear. Copy #457 of 2000 SIGNED by Reid, Rabassa, and Ferrer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
Description:Very good in fine dust jacket. Harper and Row, 1970. Hardcover....Very good in fine dust jacket. Harper and Row, 1970. Hardcover. A very good first edition in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the translator, Gregory Rabassa, on a slip of paper affixed to the title page. Library stamp on bottom of dedication page. The first American edition (first edition statement to copyright page and no number line to last page of text) published by Harper and Row. Declared a landmark novel upon publication; its stature has never faltered. A very attractive copy of both book and jacket, very good with just the slightest trace of wear to the bottom edge and tips in a near fine (price-clipped) second state dust jacket (with period rather than exclamation following jacket flap copy). Dust jacket bears Harper code to lower flap corner (0270). Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Description:Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. A LOVELY COPY...Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. A LOVELY COPY SIGNED AND DATED '92, BY GARCIA MARQUEZ ON TITLE PAGE. Translation of Cien aņos de soledad.
Description:First Edition. First issue, with no number line at the end of...First Edition. First issue, with no number line at the end of the text, a price of $7.95 and an exclamation point ("! ") at end of first paragraph on the front jacket flap. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page: "To--/ from his friend / Gabriel / 90." A superb copy of the author's masterpiece, a foundational work in the literary realm of magical realism, uncommon to find inscribed. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing at the spine ends and corners, with just a hint of toning to the spine.
From the opening line I loved every single part of this book, right to its incredibly poetic ending that made goosebumps spring up as I desperately read the last few lines. It is of the magical surrealism genre, sort of along a similar vein as Haroun and the Sea of Stories, or The Alchemist, in the ...
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Never has a story been told so magically, eloquently, and with such attention to detail. Marquez transports the reader to a fantastic world which is as full of truth and emotion as it is of wonder and absurdity. If you are like me, you will read this book time and time again.
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