Gabriel Garcia Marquez. First American edition (stated). Laid in letter from Random House stating it's an advance copy (ARC). Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson and Chip Kidd. Translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman. Has the following publication marking "4/88" on rear flap of jacket and "FPT" on front. Has book-of-the-month club main selection stated on lower, front inside flap. The book title is in yellow denoting a first state jacket. Hardcover: Near Fine. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. A beautiful book with black cloth and gold lettering on cover and spine. No writing or markings in the book, 348 pp. The book and jacket meet all the first edition points.
First American edition of the author's work, which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century.
"This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told," wrote the New York Times. It's a "sumptuous book[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age" (The Washington Post). The English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007, starring Academy Award-nominated Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro."
