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Lot 131

GARCIA MÁRQUEZ (GABRIEL)
Cien años de soledad, FIRST EDITION, Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana, 1967

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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GARCIA MÁRQUEZ (GABRIEL)

Cien años de soledad, FIRST EDITION, small label pasted above imprint on title-page ('E.D.H.A.S.A.... Barcelona, Reg. Empresas Importadores de Publicaciones Extranjeras...'), light browning and ocasional foxing throughout, publisher's illustrated wrappers, lower cover slightly soiled and rubbed, spine with vertical reading cracks as usual, 8vo, Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana, 1967

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION OF MARQUEZ'S MASTERPIECE OF MAGIC REALISM. This was the book that gained the Colombian writer his reputation and ultimately led to his Nobel Prize in 1982. Much of the credit for the immediate success of the book was due to his daring editor Francisco 'Paco' Porruá, who insisted on an unusually large print run, which nonetheless sold out quickly. Porrúa also edited Borges and Julio Cortázar and later founded Minotaur, which popularised Bradbury, Ballard, Tolkien, and others in the Spanish-speaking world, often in Porrúa's own translations (see also lot 129).

The present copy bears the importation label of Sudamericana's sister company in Barcelona, Edhasa, who published the author's works in the city to which Marquez moved in 1967 and felt a great affinity. The principal character in the novel is a native of Barcelona, who also happens to own a bookshop which "mas que una libreria parecia un basurero de libros usados" ('rather than a bookshop, looked like a rubbish dump for second-hand books').

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