Living To Tell The Tale

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. This memoir is the first volume of a planned trilogy to tell the story of the Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and is considered one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. It takes the reader from his birth (1927) in Colombia, through the start of his career as a writer, and into the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. His style is conversational--a tale of people, places, and events. Handsome, clean, purple half-cloth binding with silver titles; clean purple boards; lower front corner slightly and gently bumped; spine head and heel lightly compressed. Tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Rough cut. Pages edges clean with light small impression like from a thumbnail. Text body as new. Clean and unmarked jacket with photograph of author at two years old, sepia tones; wrinkled around spine head and upper and lower edges, small closed tear to spine heel. Price-clipped. 484 pages. 9.5 x 6 inches. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2003.