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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Beverly Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Book is near fine with slight fraying of the bottom spine end. Gift inscription on the half-title page. First state dust jacket is price clipped. Issue point: there is an exclamation mark following "America" on the front flap. Chipping at the corners and spine ends, tear at bottom of front panel; very good. Comes house in a custom slip case.
Synopsis
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).
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- Bookseller
- Bookbid Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1402062
- Title
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Author
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1970
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Bookbid Rare Books
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Beverly Hills, California
About Bookbid Rare Books
Bookbid Rare Books is a rare book dealer located in Beverly Hills, California. The family run company has sold modern literary first editions and children's books for over 20 years. Member of ABAA, ILAB.
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- First Edition
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- Slip Case
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- Fine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
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- Copyright page
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- Price Clipped
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