One Hundred Years Of Solitude (First Edition In First Issue Dust Jacket) by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - 1970

New York: New American Library, 1963. First Edition, First Printing . Cloth/Boards. Very Good Book/Near Fine DJ. 238 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt, Over Gey Boards With Dark Grey Strips. First Printing Stated. Inscribed "To Tom + Linda / Charles Webb" On The Front Free Endpaper. Book Otherwise Unmarked. Page 41 Was Cut Oversize In Part, The Extra Remaining, With A Corner Crease. Lightly Used, No Fraying To Cloth Or Paper-Covered Boards, Would Be Near Fine. However, Book Was Improperly Stored, Rear Cover Has Indentations To Boards, Without Tears To Paper, And There Is Dampstaining At Upper Corner Of Red Endpapers, With Show-Through On Half Title And A Very Small Area Of The Verso Of The Last Free White Endpaper. There Is No Dampstainig Visible On The Other Pages In The Book, But It Does Show A Light Discoloration In The Orange-Yellow Topstain On The Top Edge Of The Page Block. Dj Is Near New, Not Price Clipped, Faint Wear At Base Of Spine With Three Tiny Tears/Nicks, No Creasing, Slight Fading To… Read More

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869. First Edition, First Issue 1st Printing. Brown Cloth. Very Good. 9 1/16" Tall. Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Illustrations. Xviii, 19- 651 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Scarce First Issue With All First Issue Points: American Publishing Company On Spine And At Top Of Publisher's Info On Title Page; 1869 Date On Title And Copyright Pages; No Illustration Of Napoleon Iii On P. 129; Missing Page Numbers In Table Of Contents Pp Xvii-Xviii; P. 643 Shows "Chapter Xli"; Text Ends P. 651 Followed By 5 Pages Of Ads With Personal History" On 3Rd Page Of Ads. Original Embossed Brown Cloth Covers With Original Spine With Gilt Lettering And Design, Gilt Present, Bright And Clear, But Not Entirely Brilliant, Professionally And Attractively Re-Backed In 2010 By Heritage Bindery Using The Original Boards And Backstrip From This Copy, Laying Down The Spine Over New Cloth With Some Minor Professional Repairs To The Edges. Small Triangular Loss Of Original… Read More

Norfolk, Connecticutt [1945]: New Directions, 1941. First Edition, Second Issue . Smooth Red Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 205 Pp. First Edition. Colophon States A Total Of 1500 Copies Were Printed. Bound In Smooth Red Cloth [749 Copies Were Bound In A Red Burlap Binding In 1941, The Remaining 751 Copies Were Bound In This Smooth Red Cloth Binding And Issued In April 1945]. First Issue [1941] Paper Labels, Printed Text On Front Label Being 2.7 Cm Wide [It Is Believed That Copies With A 3 Cm Width Print Line Were Issued Only With Some 1945 Bindings]. First Issue Dj With Name Correctly Spelled As Nabokov On Cover And Flaps [ A Variant Dj With Spelling "Nabokoff" Was Apparently Printed First, But, Confusingly, Issued Only On The 1945 Issue In Smooth Red Cloth, Probably When The Publisher Ran Out Of Corrected Jackets]. [For A Bibliographic Description See Vnbiblio]. Bright And Fresh, Spine And Cover Labels White And As New. Jacket Is Nearly Complete, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50] And Only… Read More

New York / London: St. Martin's Press / St. James Press, 1976. First Edition 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. First English Language Edition, Simultaneous American And English First Edition, Dj Priced In Both Pounds And Dollars, Both Publishers' Names On Book, Spine And Dj. Book And Dj As New, Dj Immaculate And Unfaded Except For Tiny Rub At Lower Front Tip Of Dj.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cover Plate By Leonora Carrington, Interior Illustrations By Pablo Weisz. 52 Pp. Light Green Cloth With Paste-On Illustration By Carrington, Gilt Spine Lettering. #10 Of 150 Copies Designed And Printed By Noel Young For Capra Press, Bound By Emily Paine, Signed By Leonora Carrington. Fine, No Wear Or Fading, 2" X 3/16" Area Of Light Foxing In Gutter Near Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge. Do Dust Jacket, As Issued.

New York: New American Library, 1963. First Edition, First Printing . Cloth/Boards. Very Good Book/Near Fine DJ. 238 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt, Over Gey Boards With Dark Grey Strips. First Printing Stated. Inscribed "To Tom + Linda / Charles Webb" On The Front Free Endpaper. Book Otherwise Unmarked. Page 41 Was Cut Oversize In Part, The Extra Remaining, With A Corner Crease. Lightly Used, No Fraying To Cloth Or Paper-Covered Boards, Would Be Near Fine. However, Book Was Improperly Stored, Rear Cover Has Indentations To Boards, Without Tears To Paper, And There Is Dampstaining At Upper Corner Of Red Endpapers, With Show-Through On Half Title And A Very Small Area Of The Verso Of The Last Free White Endpaper. There Is No Dampstainig Visible On The Other Pages In The Book, But It Does Show A Light Discoloration In The Orange-Yellow Topstain On The Top Edge Of The Page Block. Dj Is Near New, Not Price Clipped, Faint Wear At Base Of Spine With Three Tiny Tears/Nicks, No Creasing, Slight Fading To… Read More

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869. First Edition, First Issue 1st Printing. Brown Cloth. Very Good. 9 1/16" Tall. Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Illustrations. Xviii, 19- 651 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Scarce First Issue With All First Issue Points: American Publishing Company On Spine And At Top Of Publisher's Info On Title Page; 1869 Date On Title And Copyright Pages; No Illustration Of Napoleon Iii On P. 129; Missing Page Numbers In Table Of Contents Pp Xvii-Xviii; P. 643 Shows "Chapter Xli"; Text Ends P. 651 Followed By 5 Pages Of Ads With Personal History" On 3Rd Page Of Ads. Original Embossed Brown Cloth Covers With Original Spine With Gilt Lettering And Design, Gilt Present, Bright And Clear, But Not Entirely Brilliant, Professionally And Attractively Re-Backed In 2010 By Heritage Bindery Using The Original Boards And Backstrip From This Copy, Laying Down The Spine Over New Cloth With Some Minor Professional Repairs To The Edges. Small Triangular Loss Of Original… Read More

Norfolk, Connecticutt [1945]: New Directions, 1941. First Edition, Second Issue . Smooth Red Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 205 Pp. First Edition. Colophon States A Total Of 1500 Copies Were Printed. Bound In Smooth Red Cloth [749 Copies Were Bound In A Red Burlap Binding In 1941, The Remaining 751 Copies Were Bound In This Smooth Red Cloth Binding And Issued In April 1945]. First Issue [1941] Paper Labels, Printed Text On Front Label Being 2.7 Cm Wide [It Is Believed That Copies With A 3 Cm Width Print Line Were Issued Only With Some 1945 Bindings]. First Issue Dj With Name Correctly Spelled As Nabokov On Cover And Flaps [ A Variant Dj With Spelling "Nabokoff" Was Apparently Printed First, But, Confusingly, Issued Only On The 1945 Issue In Smooth Red Cloth, Probably When The Publisher Ran Out Of Corrected Jackets]. [For A Bibliographic Description See Vnbiblio]. Bright And Fresh, Spine And Cover Labels White And As New. Jacket Is Nearly Complete, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50] And Only… Read More

New York / London: St. Martin's Press / St. James Press, 1976. First Edition 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. First English Language Edition, Simultaneous American And English First Edition, Dj Priced In Both Pounds And Dollars, Both Publishers' Names On Book, Spine And Dj. Book And Dj As New, Dj Immaculate And Unfaded Except For Tiny Rub At Lower Front Tip Of Dj.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cover Plate By Leonora Carrington, Interior Illustrations By Pablo Weisz. 52 Pp. Light Green Cloth With Paste-On Illustration By Carrington, Gilt Spine Lettering. #10 Of 150 Copies Designed And Printed By Noel Young For Capra Press, Bound By Emily Paine, Signed By Leonora Carrington. Fine, No Wear Or Fading, 2" X 3/16" Area Of Light Foxing In Gutter Near Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge. Do Dust Jacket, As Issued.