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Márquez, Gabriel García | One Hundred Years of Solitude, inscribed to Nicolas Trincado

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Lot 66 | Márquez, Gabriel García | One Hundred Years of Solitude, inscribed to Nicolas Trincado
Márquez, Gabriel García
Cien Años de Soledad. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, [1967]

8vo. Inscribed by Márquez on the half-title, with ownership inscription on the title; minor toning, as usual. Pictorial wrappers printed in blue, black and orange, Caracas book seller's ticket to front free endpaper; light wear to spine with faint vertical creases, small chip to lower right of front cover, faint foxing to endleaves. Housed in custom half morocco-backed slipcase and folding chemise.

First edition, presentation copy, of Márquez's masterpiece — inscribed on the title-page: "For Nicolas Trincado, esté espantoso folletin, con la amistad imprevista del autor, Gabriel, 1967" ("For Nicolas Trincado, this dreadful pulp-fiction, with the newfound friendship of the author...").

Extraordinarily, this is one of the first copies of Cien Años de Soledad that Márquez ever saw, never mind signed. Márquez was traveling in Venezuela when the book was published in Argentina, but while in Caracas attending the ceremony for the awarding of the first Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the writer Miguel Otero Silva—who was giving a speech to honor the recipient, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru—mentioned the presence of Márquez in the audience. Silva also noted the very recent publication of Cien Años de Soledad, and that Nicolas Trincado, who was also in attendance, had a copy of the novel with him.

Márquez sought Trincado out, and was stunned when he saw the cover art for the book, which he had not approved. The author would later refer to this as a "pirate edition," hence the present inscription deeming it "dreadful pulp-fiction," or, colloquially, "cheap trash." Beginning with the second printing, all Sudamericana copies were bound with the approved cover, using the artwork that had been provided by a friend Marquez's in Mexico City.

One of the first copies of his magnum opus ever to be signed by Márquez.
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