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[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia (1927-2014). One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1970.
8vo. Original gilt–stamped green cloth (spine gently sunned, spine slightly skewed); original dust jacket (chipping at ends and fore-corners, some chipping to front flap, spine gently sunned). Provenance: Larry McMurtry (his bookplate, which he designed, features the horseshoe-shaped brand his father and grandfather used on the McMurtry cattle), from his personal library at his home in Archer City.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE without the publisher’s numerical code on p.422. In a second issue dust jacket without an exclamation mark at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap. The author’s celebrated novel of magical realism and a representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s.