signed first edition
1983 · New York
by Marquez, Gabriel García; Rabassa, Gregory
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First US edition of Márquez's non-linear narrative of a murder, inscribed by translator Gregory Rabassa. 8'' x 5.5''. Original brown cloth, blind stamped front board. Silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($10.95) pictorial jacket designed by Sara Eisenman. [8], 120 pages. Inscribed by Rabassa to front fly leaf: "For Fernando E. Vega, / May all things be foretold / for him. / Gregory Rabassa." Jacket with trace edgewear, light sunning to spine. Boards with touch of rubbing, faint toning to board egdes, small spot of soil to rear boards.
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