March 2021 Catalogue

23 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “The Greatest Achievement In Spanish Literature Since Don Quixote ” (Neruda) 21. GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. Cien Años de Soledad. Buenos Aires, 1967. Octavo, original pictorial paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $5800. Click for more info First edition, in the original Spanish, of “one of the preeminent literary achievements of the century,” in original pictorial wrappers. “One of the best-known and highly esteemed works of Latin American magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cien Años de Soledad]… allegorizes cosmic questions and literary concerns while remaining an absorbing story” (Barron, Fantasy and Horror 7-130). “The popular response to One Hundred Years of Solitude was almost unimaginable… It is the most famous manifestation of the Boom, and García Márquez is the most celebrated of the prominent Boom writers” (Jon Lee Anderson). Text in Spanish. Interior clean, fragile wrappers quite fresh with mild creasing to spine. A nearly fine copy, unusual in such nice condition. “Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words…”