first edition
1988 · New York
by García Márquez, Gabriel; Grossman, Edith
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Near fine.. Uncorrected proof, second issue, of the first edition in English of García Marquez's ode to the persistence of romantic memory — promotional copy in publisher's black cardboard slipcase. The author's acclaimed novel, first published in Spanish in 1985. The English translation was praised by Thomas Pynchon to the utmost reaches of superlative adjectives, and was the recipient of less frenzied but still glowing compliments from Michiko Kakutani. García Márquez's theme — romantic love that never fades, vows never broken; or, seen another way, the nightmare impossibility of permanently dismissing (truncated)