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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Harper & Row, 1970. Hardback. Very Good/Good +. BCE. Lime green cloth over boards with gilt particulars to spine; gilt publisher's emblem to front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light foxing to top edge; fore edge deckled. Boards are soiled with bumping to corners and tail of spine. Dust jacket has creasing and chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine; pictorial front cover is bright. Rear cover has soiling and scuffing with moderate creasing and closed tear to top edge; previous owners tape repair to lower edge. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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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Details
- Seller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 64314
- Title
- ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
- Author
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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