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"They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation": First Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and lengthily signed by Translator Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the dedication page and additionally lengthily signed by the translator on the title page as follows, "They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation Gregory Rabassa. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A unique example.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 136198
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"With all my heart, the flower beyond": Rare First Edition of the Author’s Masterpiece Cien Anos de Soledad; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to close friend Juana Munoz
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Cien Anos de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967.
First edition of the author's masterpiece which is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the dedication page with a large drawing of a flower, "Para Juana, con todo el corazon, la flor mas alla, Gabo." [For Juana, with all my heart, the flower beyond]. The recipient, Juana Munoz, was a close friend of Marquez and wife of Sergio Munoz. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house…
Price: $30,000.00 Item Number: 132338
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"Life is not the one you lived but the one you remember and how you remember it to tell it": First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Autobiography, Vivar para Contarla; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with a Large Drawing of a Flower to Close Friends Juana and Sergio Munoz
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Vivir para Contarla [Living To Tell the Tale].
Bogota: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2002.
First edition in Spanish of the Nobel Prize-winning author's memoir. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page with a large drawing of a flower, "Para Juana y Sergio, la flor del carino despues de los postres Gabriel Garcia Marquez Los Angeles, 2004." (In English it reads, "the flower of love after dessert). Garcia Marquez has also underlined the dedication of this work. The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 132701
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Noticia de un Secuestro; Lengthily Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Noticia de un Secuestro [News of a Kidnapping]
Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1996.
First edition of this work of nonfiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Para Juana y Sergio, en la linea contra la Helius - Burlon; y Le amistad de siempre, Gabo 96." The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house or "salon" on Sundays. At the time, Marquez was largely unknown to the literary world…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132317
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Rare First Edition in Spanish of the Author’s Masterpiece Cien Anos de Soledad; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the Year of Publication
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Cien Anos de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967.
First edition of the author's masterpiece which is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Para Susi, con la amistad de Gabo 1967." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable in this condition and signed in the year of publication.
Price: $42,000.00 Item Number: 137469
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Signed Limited First Columbian Edition and True First of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera; Signed by Him
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera [Love in the Time of Cholera].
Bogota: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1985.
Signed limited first Columbian edition and true first which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $4,400.00 Item Number: 137639
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
La Hojarasca.
Bogota: Ediciones- S.L.B., 1955.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by artist Cecilia Porras. In very good condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138058
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Rare First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
La Hojarasca.
Bogota: Ediciones- S.L.B, 1955.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by artist Cecilia Porras. In very good condition, name to the title page.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 141457
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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…
Price: $8,500.00 Item Number: 142798
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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
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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; Lengthily inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. Presentation copy, warmly and lengthily inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "Por la mas grande y guapa de todos las Beatrices listísimas, con un abrizo estrangulaon Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1971." Which translates into English as, "For the best, smartest, and most beautiful of all Beatrices, with a very tight hug Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1971." The recipient, Beatriz Alarcón, was a friend of Garcia Marquez's in Colombia. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 143912
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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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First Edition of Eric Garcia's Matchstick Men; Signed by Eric Garcia and Actor Bruce Altman
GARCIA, Eric.
Matchstick Men: A Novel of Petty Crimes.
New York: Random House, 2002.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 film directed by Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Bruce Altman and Alison Lohman. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eric Garcia and actor Bruce Altman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140061
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RARE NINETEENTH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
GARDNER, Alexander. [Abraham Lincoln].
Abraham Lincoln Portrait.
c. 1860.
Rare original painting of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. After a photograph by Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Scottish photographer Alexander Gardner immigrated to the United States in 1856 where he became best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, and the execution of the conspirators to Lincoln's assassination. In near fine condition. In a period frame. The entire piece measures 20.75 by 16.75 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 95830