No One Writes To the Colonel

New York / Bogata: Harper & Row, Alfred A. Knopf, Henry Holt, The Limited Editions Club, Grupo Editorial Norma, 2005. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. A fantastic collection of sixteen first editions, all signed by Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez and all inscribed by him to the same recipient, Richard Mattie. A painstaking exercise in book collecting, undertaken by… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Impression of the Nobelist's third work of fiction, after Leaf Storm. 8vo: [6],170pp. Publisher's steel-grey finely woven cloth, spine stamped in silver gilt, top edge stained red, illustrated dust jacket printed in green, yellow, and red, priced £1.50. A superb example, virtually As New (and probably unread), in… Read more about this item

Harper & Row, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Cloth & Boards. First Edition in English. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black lettered quarter red cloth over mustard paper boards. Wrapped in decorative dust jacket. Dust jacket with slight wear to the extremities. This is the first book by Marquez to be published in English.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. Early printing of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Rear panel photograph by Jerry Bauer. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, in a Very Good first state dust jacket with price intact and Jerry Bauer photo credit on rear panel. Corners and spine ends bumped, with a heavy bump to the top of the spine, with corresponding bump and crimp to jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st Printing.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. Publisher's printed wrappers. Near fine copy in a very good rubbed uncorrected proof state of the dust jacket stating: "Provisional Publication 15th July 1971." The jacket is approximately 1/4-inch taller than the proof, and is worn… Read more about this item

Picador, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

1st UK 1971. J Cape - London. 0224005308. Near Fine ex-library copy with small tape shadow on rear EP. Neat stamps on date page & replaced FEP. Dustwrapper Near Fine, unclipped with just a very minor chip at base of spine (on colour not through wrapper entirely). A difficult to find title. .

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good-. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has toning and mild soil to boards and spine, spine ends and corners worn, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. DJ has edgewear that includes small tears to spine ends and corners, rubbing… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First US Edition/2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A very nice early printing of the author's first book to be published in the US. In brick red cloth with red type to spine. Very light wear. Previous owner's name in pen to front pastedown. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding. Jacket… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. No One Write to the Colonel was originally published in 1961. The novel is considered by some to be within the realm of magic realism, and it some sense this is true. It contains with its plot magical events. Nonetheless, the novel deviates from the boundaries of this informal genre. The main characters are unnamed,… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First English edition. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. Small owner's chop mark on front fly, boards mottled, a good copy in good plus dust jacket with a couple of creased tears.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. First British edition. Hardcover. An early collection of short stories from this Nobel Prize winning author of "Love in the Time of Cholera" and his magnum opus "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. An about very good copy with some slight discolorations to the boards in an about very… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1968 stated 1st American edition of Marquez's first work translated into English. Clean and Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($5.95), Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. A true collector's copy, legitimately approaching pristine.

Paperback. Very Good.

First UK edition. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket, which has small nicks to the top corners and a tiny bit of wear of the top of the spine. Briefly inscribed on the half-title by the author in 1983.

NY: Harper & Row, 1968. The second-state dustwrapper is priced clipped and shows a tiny chip at bottom of spine. Overall, a well above average copy of this, the first U.S. edition of this, the author's first book to be translated to English. In bright mustard, orange, blue and yellow Guy Fleming dustwrapper.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second printing (with number line beginning with a 2). Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein. Tiny abrasions on rear endpapers, else fine in a price-clipped dust jacket (with photograph of Garcia Marquez on rear panel attributed to Rodrigo Moya) with slight rubbing on the spine, else fine. … Read more about this item

Harper & Row, 1968-01-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st US Edition, 2nd printing with number line on pg 170. Very Good text, solid covers. Previous owner name on flyleaf. Dust jacket has price clipped flap and light water ripple to front, some minor color transfer from cloth to bottom inside edge of DJ… Read more about this item