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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's In Evil Hour; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to his legendary Literary Agent Carmen Balcells
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL.
In Evil Hour.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1979.
First edition of “this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author’s later flowering and greatness” (Boston Globe). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his legendary literary agent in the year of publication on the second title page, “Para Carmen, Eres mi todo. Gabo Rome 17 Oct. 1979.” The recipient, Carmen Balcells was a literary agent of Spanish-language authors from Spain and Latin America, including six Nobel Prize–winning authors. She led her agency from 1956 to 2000, during which time she was one of the driving forces behind the 1960s boom of Latin American literature. Authors who have published with Balcells have dedicated novels to her and included her as characters in her work; she is praised as “one of the most powerful and influential women in Spanish letters” long list of prominent authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, Clarice Lispector, Nélida Piñon, Miguel Delibes, Alvaro Mutis, Camilo José Cela, Vicente Aleixandre, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jose Luis Sampedro, Terenci Moix, Juan Carlos Onetti, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral, Josep Maria Castellet, Juan Goytisolo, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Juan Marsé, Eduardo Mendoza, Isabel Allende, Rosa Montero, Gustavo Martin Garzo, Nélida Pinõn. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. An exceptional association.
Price: $8,500.00 Item Number: 142798
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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCíA .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez’s masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 144678
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First Edition of Garcia Marquez's El otono del Patriarca; Signed by Him and Jose Saramago
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL (JOSE SARAMAGO).
El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].
Barcelona: Plaza & Janes 1975.
First Spanish edition of this “majestic…superb…a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant” (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. From the library of Jose Saramago, with his signature on the front free endpaper. Both authors were recipients of the Nobel Prize in literature. A nice association linking these two great writers of the twentieth century. Very good in wrappers.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 74033
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First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale; Signed by Edith Grossman
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL; EDITH GROSSMAN.
Living To Tell the Tale.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2003.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s memoir. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Translated by Edith Grossman.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133748
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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL. TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1970.
First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145926
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“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain”: First Edition of Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Signed by Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983.
First edition of this novella by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Gregory Rabassa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Alain Gauthier. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 146862