Paris (France)

Cent ans de solitude [One Hundred Years of Solitude]
First edition of the French translation for which no grand papier (deluxe copies) were printed.

Rare and precious handwritten inscription dated and signed by Gabriel García Márquez: “Para Jean-Pierre, de su amigo, Gabriel, 8. 82.” (“For Jean-Pierre, from his friend, Gabriel, 8. 82.”)

Writer, director, translator and critic, Jean-Pierre Richard was a close friend of García Márquez and one of the few journalists to whom the writer granted an interview. Indeed, García Márquez hated this exercise, which he felt was too close to fiction: “Yo invento respuestas de lo que no soy". One of the most important essay on the relationship between the world of fiction and the real world in One Hundred Years of Solitude resulted from this valuable interview. In this study entitled García Márquez y la Mujer, the writer reveals to his friend the living models that inspired his phantasmagorical characters: “Claro. Yo también conocí a Ernéndira. Ya se lo dije. Yo no tengo imaginación. Eso pasó hace mucho tiempo en Colombia, en la Costa Caribe".
Very precious inscription to his French friend and confidant Jean-Pierre Richard, thanks to whom the origins of Macondo were partially revealed.

Republished one year after the original.

Binding in half blue-grey percaline, spine decorated with a gilt fleuron in the centre and a double gilt filet at the bottom, brown shagreen title piece, discreet restorations on the joints, contemporary binding.

Handwritten presentation by Émile Zola to the publisher Ernest Flammarion.

Precious copy enriched with a handwritten presentation by the author set on one of his masterpieces.

Republished nine years after the original.

Binding in half blue-grey percaline, spine decorated with a gilt fleuron in the centre and a double gilt filet at the bottom, brown shagreen title piece, discreet restorations on the joints, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing.

Handwritten presentation by Émile Zola to the publisher [Ernest] Flammarion.

Precious copy enriched with a handwritten presentation by the author set on one of his masterpieces.