Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez

Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.

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Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.

Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.A near-fine copy, unusual in such nice condition. Usual slight toning to interior, only light wear to extremities of fragile wrappers and mild toning mainly to spine. Pablo Neruda proclaimed it 'the greatest achievement in Spanish literature since Don Quixote' (Klein, 26). They sold out in a week… 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). García Márquez's wife Mercedes 'had to pawn her hair dryer and their electric heater to pay for the postage to mail the finished manuscript-in two separate lots, because they couldn't afford to mail the whole thing all at once-to his Argentine publisher, who printed 8000 copies. 'One of the best-known and highly esteemed works of Latin American magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude … allegorizes cosmic questions and literary concerns while remaining an absorbing story' (Barron, Fantasy and Horror 7-130). Housed in a custom onlaid half morocco clamshell box.įirst edition of 'one of the preeminent literary achievements of the century,' in original pictorial wrappers. Octavo, original pictorial paper wrappers.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, (1967). 'THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SPANISH LITERATURE SINCE DON QUIXOTE' (NERUDA): FIRST EDITION OF CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD, 1967

Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez