Shop All

/

luxury

/

books & manuscripts

/

book

/

literature and children's

Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera Signed Limited First Edition

Alfred A. Knopf

1988

Complimentary Shipping

Price:

International shipping available

Customs duties and taxes may apply.

Ships from: Maryland, United States

Taxes not included

VAT and other taxes are not reflected in the listed pricing. Read more

Authenticity guaranteed

We guarantee the authenticity of this item.

Details

Up arrow

Description

A signed limited first edition, first printing in English of García Marquez's ode to the persistence of romantic memory.

  • Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian).
  • Translated by Edith Grossman.
  • New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
  • [10], 348, [4] pages.
  • Signed by García Márquez at colophon and numbered 107 of 350 signed and numbered copies of the first edition.
  • Original quarter pink cloth with black cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine, in original decorative black lace-printed mylar protective jacket, with original yellow and black slipcase, bright pink endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle.


There is no greater glory than to die for love."


"It would be presumptuous to speak of moving 'beyond' One Hundred Years of Solitude but clearly García Márquez has moved somewhere else, not least into deeper awareness of the ways in which, as Florentino comes to learn, 'nobody teaches life anything.'" — Thomas Pynchon


Gorgeously designed edition of 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 a determined suitor – struck Pynchon as "revolutionary," though his judgment that working in "love's vernacular" is a "daring step for any writer" may raise eyebrows among those familiar with genres and modes of writing in which these themes and treatments have never fallen out of fashion. García Márquez himself once said, with perhaps greater perception, that the revolutionary part of writing consists simply of doing it well: and he did. A beautiful copy of this signed limited US edition, which preceded the UK edition by several months.

Condition Report

Revive
Fair
Good
Star iconVery Good
Like New

Minor signs of age and handling.

Dimensions

Height: 9.25 inches / 23.5 cm
Width: 6.25 inches / 15.88 cm

Feature(s)

First Edition, Signed

Language

English

Subject

Modern first editions, Fiction, Autographed and Signed Material, Novels, American Literature, Literature, Gifts, Specialist Selections

Conditions of Business

Please note that the cancellation right for EU/UK purchasers applies to this item. Please read Condition 19 of the Buy Now Marketplace Conditions of Business for buyers for more information. Read more here.