Mexico City, Mexico: Excelsior, 1975. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and signed simply as "Julio," which is typical of how he signed for friends. Text in Spanish. A critique of large corporations' reach into Latin America, designed as a superhero comic book featuring the French serial antihero Fantomas. The title...
Mexico: Siglo veintiuno editores, 1967. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Oblong octavo, softcover with stiff wrappers and patterned endpapers. One of 6000 numbered copies (this being No. 3367). Another 6000 copies were printed for distribution in Argentina. One of two almanac-style books produced by Cortazar, the other being "Último Round" (1969). Very Good plus, with faint foxing, a few...
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
![Cien años de soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude] (First Argentine Edition). Gabriel Garcia...](/pictures/thumb/135665.jpg?v=1507736184)
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967. First Argentine Edition, preceding all others. The correct first edition of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, published three years prior to the US edition, and the book that gained Garcia Marquez prominence amongst Latin American writers like Mario Vargos Llosa and Carlos Fuentes. A bright, attractive copy of a genuinely scarce high spot of Latin...
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First Edition. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page, with an accompanying sketch of a bird. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing at the spine ends and corners. An attractive copy of this collection of 26 short stories.1750.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A pristine copy of this uncommon Marquez edition of 26 short stories.
Santafe de Bogota, CO: Arango Editores, 1994. First Colombian Edition. The lightest hint of rubbing at the crown, else Fine in illustrated French wrappers. A lovely copy of his first play, never translated into English. Text in Spanish.
Bogota, Colombia: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1992. First Colombian Edition, and correct first. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of this collection of fourteen short stories. Text in Spanish.
Bogota, Colombia: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1989. First Colombian Edition. Text in Spanish. Bottom corners just barely bumped, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
New York: Harper and Row, 1978. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Light fading at the spine and extremities, else just about Fine and unread in light green wrappers. A lovely copy of a scarce proof.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine in red publisher's wrappers. Light fading to the top of the front panel, with fading and a few mild reading creases at the spine. An attractive copy of this set of short stories.
![La mala hora [In Evil Hour] (First Mexican Edition). Gabriel Garcia Marquez](/pictures/thumb/136221.jpg?v=1492979275)
Mexico: Era, 1966. First Mexican Edition, preceded by 1962 Madrid edition, but the first printing of the text as Garcia Marquez originally intended. One of just 2,000 copies, and much scarcer than the 1962 Madrid edition of which 5,000 copies were printed. In an author's note to this edition, Gracia Marquez takes issue with the liberties taken by a proofreader...
![La mala hora [In Evil Hour] (Hardcover). Gabriel Garcia Marquez](/pictures/thumb/122812.jpg?v=1434404418)
Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1986. First printing of this edition. Text in Spanish. Very Good plus in an about Fine dust jacket. Slightly cocked, with lightly bowed boards. Jacket has light toning to the spine panel, else Jacket is Fine. One of an edition of 5000.
Chicago: Bard / Avon, 1973. First printing of this edition. Just about Fine in illustrated wrappers. The lightest hint of a reading crease to the spine, with two small creases to the corners, else Fine.
New York: Harper and Row, 1972. First Edition in English. Owner name to the half-title, with a few tiny closed tears and light rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the jacket, else Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. A bright, attractive copy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author and dated in the year of publication. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. Just about Fine and unread in gray wrappers. Bottom corner lightly bumped. An attractive copy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine and unread in black and white wrappers. Crown lightly rubbed, else Fine.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. First UK Edition. The usual light toning to page edges, with a hint of fading to the jacket spine, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy, with publisher's price sticker to the bottom of the front flap.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First American Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Par Ted, / del amigo, / Gabriel '87." Fine in a just about Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly bumped at the spine ends, with a hint of fading to the spine panel, else Fine. A bright, lovely copy, uncommon signed.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First UK Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. An attractive copy of this book, published in the US as "Collected Novellas."
New York: Harper and Row, 1975. First American Edition. About Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light fading to the topstain, else book is Fine. Jacket has a hint of rubbing at the spine ends and corners, with mild laminate lift to the crown and a crease to the front flap. A bright, attractive copy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Just about Fine in red wrappers, with just a hint of foxing to the page edges. An attractive copy, and basis for the 1987 film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Rupert Everett.
New York: Henry Holt, 1986. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. About Fine in yellow wrappers, with publisher's materials stapled at the fore-edge to the inside of the front wrapper. An attractive copy of a scarce proof.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First American Edition. About Fine and unread in light green wrappers, with proof jacket stapled to the rear and publisher's materials stapled to the front wrapper. A lovely copy.
New York: Harper and Row, 1979. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Near Fine, in green wrappers. Light reading crease to the front joint, with a tiny crease to the bottom rear corner. A bright, lovely copy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American Edition, and first edition in English. A cornerstone novel about the Mexican Revolution. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean, long split to the rear pastedown. Jacket spine and folds slightly toned, with only a few tiny chips and tears at the extremities, else fresh and attractive.
London: Faber and Faber, 1987. First Edition. Light toning to page edges, else just about Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. A lovely copy of this collection of essays discussing the works of the greats of Latin American literature.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1995. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Collects fourteen stories, many set in Mexico. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Foxing to the page edges, else Near Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket.
![Alturas de Macchu Picchu [The Heights of Macchu Picchu] (Signed Limited Edition). Pablo Neruda,...](/pictures/thumb/135561.jpg?v=1492979135)
Chile: Nascimento, 1954. First printing of this edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 680) SIGNED by the author. This copy retains the scarce insert on green paper that was issued with all copies, a bibliographic note on the genesis and publication history of the poem by Jorge Sanhueza. The first definitive edition of the poems, including the...
Spain: Inventarios Provisionales, 1973. First Spanish Edition, preceding all others. An excellent documentary on the military coup in Santiago during 1973, with black-and-white photographs by Fina Torres throughout. The book also explores the funeral of Pablo Neruda, where mourners took advantage of the funeral to protest the new regime. With images of his open casket and of his house where...
Los Angeles: Grenadier Productions, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Man Who Was Alive and Well," written by Shimon Wincelberg, produced for circulation at Grenadier Productions in Los Angeles, for purposes of script development. Wincelberg's notable film credits include "Fighter Attack" (1953), "The Legend of Custer" (1968), and "Cold Sweat" (1970), as well as several television...