Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel (novel); RABASSA, Gregory (translation)
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover; dustjacket; 120pp. Fine in a Near Fine, First State dustjacket (One Hundred Days of Solitude printed on front flap), unclipped, with mild wear to extremities. The Nobel Prize-winning author's powerful short novel about "a spectacular wedding, a sudden scandal, a (perhaps reluctant) murder to which an entire town appears to be an accessory before the fact, and the exotic manifestations of guilt...
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26590
- Title
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Author
- GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel (novel); RABASSA, Gregory (translation)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Latin America;
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- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...