8vo. Original gilt-stamped green cloth (slight wear to extremities); dust jacket (price-clipped, some chipping and creasing). 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without the publisher's numerical code on p.422. In the second issue dust jacket without exclamation mark at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap. García Márquez's novel about the mulit-generational Buendía family earned him international fame as a novelist of the magical realism movement within Latin American literature.