A first edition Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'El Coronel No Tiene...

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A first edition Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel),' first edition, Spanish text, fold mark to front of thin card wrap, ink owner signature to free endpaper, toning throughout as expectected, Aguirre Editor, Medellin, 1961. A very good copy of the Colombian Nobel prize winners second book. Two thousand of this first edition were printed of which five hundred were offered for sale, some of the stock ending up with a cumin farmer in the interior of Colombia (the cataloguer apologises for the lack of reference). This rare survivour is from a house clearence from somebody who travelled in central America.

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2nd Feb 23 at 10am GMT

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