Martin, Gerald (Garcia Marquez, Gabriel)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life with: Ephemera

ISBN: 9780307271778
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. "The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature- the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years...Garcia Marquez's story is a remarkable one. Born in 1927, raised by grandparents and a clutch of aunts in a small backwater town in Colombia, the shy, intelligent boy matured into a reserved young man, first working as a provincial journalist and later as a foreign correspondent, whose years of obscurity came to an end when, at the age of forty, he published the novel entitled Cien anos de soledad- One Hundred Years of Solitude. Within months, the book had garnered spectacular international acclaim, the author hailed as the standard-bearer of a new literature: magical realism." (from front flap) The acclaimed, comprehensive biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014), the Nobel Prize-winning canonical Colombian author who famously invented & popularized the style of "magical realism" in his many classic novels & stories. British author Gerald Martin (b. 1944), a most respected & prolific critic, scholar & academician, spent almost two decades researching & writing this epic & definitive work- intensely interviewing Garcia Marquez himself along with his family, fellow writers, associates & even Fidel Castro. With two sections of captioned historical photographs. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $37.50 price printed on front flap, "5/2009" on rear flap), "First United States Edition" as stated on copyright page (preceded by the first UK edition the previous year, 2008). We found & have retained, between rear endpaper & paste-down, the original New York Times Book Review cover article on this work by Paul Berman from the June 7, 2009 issue, two leaves folded once each horizontally & vertically, in fine condition with only light browning & underlining of the title of a work in ink (The Autumn of the Patriarch). An essential collectible for the Garcia Marquez scholar-devotee in its penultimately rarest form & with enriching ephemera. See also our Item No.s 2154, 4650, 4983. Book in very fine condition with only a trace of rubbing to light-brown paper front & rear boards; very slight rubbing & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & spine. Interior very fine with only tiny bumps, faint creases at lower corners of a few page leaves. Dust jacket fine with light rubbing, occasional scratching to front, back covers & spine; light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & flaps. An extra handling fee will be added for shipping due to the weight of this item. Very Fine / Fine. [Item #4993]

Price: $40.00