The Sixties Catalogue

23 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “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. Although the Boom in Latin-American fiction was well under way, 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. “Todo lo escrito en ellos era irrepetible desde siempre y para siempre, porque las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tenían una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra.”