May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
SCARCE SIGNED COPY GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, slightly dampstained; dust jacket, unclipped, dampstain mostly evident on verso, two small closed tears along bottom edge; ex-collection Donald Drapkin, with his bookplate; elaborate custom 1/4 morocco folding case with onlaid leather parrot and jungle-themed design. New York: Harper & Row, (1970)

Additional Details

first american edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed twice by marquez on the title-page: "Cieb anos de bueno compania para el terrific Gabriel '92." and "Par Tom, Gabriel '92." In the first state dust jacket with the first paragraph on the inside flap punctuated with an explanation point.