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Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with little edge wear, small tear to front and rear. DJ corners clipped.
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No One Writes to the Colonel
Seller: Cotswolds Rare Books, OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Previous owner label to endpapers. Front endpaper missing. Dust jacket (not price clipped) has tear to top of cover - repaired. Internally very clean & bright. Seller Inventory # 934C
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No One Writes To The Colonel: And Other Stories
Published by
Jonathan Cape, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 0224005308
ISBN 13: 9780224005302
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Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes. First. First edition in English translation. Near fine with slight bumping to the spine ends and one tip. In bright dust jacket with short tears at top and bottom of front gutter fold and top of rear gutter fold (internally repaired) as well as some minor edge wear. Seller Inventory # E191
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NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL (First UK edition - first impression)
Published by
Jonathan Cape, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 0224005308
ISBN 13: 9780224005302
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein. The author's second book to be published in the UK, after "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which was published in 1970. The book comprises of nine short stories, which were originally issued in Colombia as a novella in 1961 (the title story of this collection), and in the short story collection "Big Mama's Funeral" in 1962. ***Very good in dark grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge of text-block stained dark red by the publisher. Boards clean and unmarked. Extremities of spine slightly rubbed. Corners of front board slightly creased. Boards slightly rubbed at the edges. No reading lean to the binding. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £1.50 net. The dustwrapper is complete, with the extremities just slightly rubbed and creased, but with a 3cm closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel, and a 1.5cm closed tear to the top edge of the back panel adjoining the spine. The extremities of the head and tail of the spine and the corners of the dustwrapper are slightly worn and rubbed. Tiny loss to the corner tips of the dustwrapper. Justv minimal fading to the bright colours of the dustwrapper on the spine. Dustwrapper otherwise bright and clean. ***204mm x 140mm. 170 pages. ***'"One Hundred Years of Solitude" was hailed as 'a classic on the grandest scale' by one of Latin America's greatest writers. Gabriel García Márquez is a spellbinding storyteller, a masterly weaver of words, themes and the moods of light and shade. ***As in that bestselling masterpiece, the subject of the title story is this superb collection is life in the decaying Columbian town of Macondo - the cycle of hope and despair, tragedy and comedy, that visit the inhabitants with the regularity of the rains and the heat that dominate their lives. The Colonel, a Quixotic figure burdened with extreme poverty and an asthmatic wife, languishes on faded dreams of his revolutionary past. He cherishes as his one tangible asset a skinny, long-legged fighting cock which for him, and indeed for the whole town, has become the symbol for defiance in the face of despair. ***Other stories tell of town and village life in South America, of the desperately poor and the outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, lost opportunities and present joy. "No One Writes to the Colonel" is a fitting companion volume to "One Hundred Years of Solitude", for here is all the compassion, the wit, the magical invention that established that novel as one of the finest of its time.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very good condition, albeit with the above mentioned faults. Of interest to collectors of Gabriel García Márquez and Latin American literature. This early Márquez title is becoming increasingly hard to find now, and the dustwrapper is very prone to tears and chipping, which means that presentable copies are even harder to track down. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3944z
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No One Writes to the Colonel : First printing
Published by
Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom, 1971
ISBN 10: 0224005308
ISBN 13: 9780224005302
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£1.50). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd small mark, a couple of small (largest approx. 1cm) tears, the odd small crease/rub to edges, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, little patchy browning/odd small mark/minor foxing to reverse (white side), a few small patches of loss to top (picture) surface and a little patchy creasing/rubbing/browning/odd spot of foxing to front/back inner flaps. Boards are very good with minor pushing/bumping to corners, patchy fading/browning, the odd small mark, odd minor bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top edge of pages dyed red. Pages slightly tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and tops. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. Seller Inventory # 010525
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NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL
Published by
JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1971
ISBN 10: 0224005308
ISBN 13: 9780224005302
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 205 x 135 mm approx. Top edge stained purple, [iv] + 170 pp. First UK Edition 1st impression 1971. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good / Very Good (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling to boards, mild oblique bruise to top edges of both boards as if struck by the edge of a rule. Pin prick hole to gutter of rear board at tail - probably associated with the damage to jacket. Dust Jacket- ragged tear/chip to tail of up to 8 mm approx in depth with small pinprick holes/ indentations else no significant rubbing or soiling, non price clipped - cover £1.50. In a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Seller Inventory # 134935
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No One Writes to the Colonel
Published by
Jonathan Cape, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 0224005308
ISBN 13: 9780224005302
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Columbus Rare Books, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fine / Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First UK Edition. 170 pp. Black cloth boards with gilt spine titles, in original unclipped red, yellow, and green dust jacket. Minimal edgewear; faint corner bump; clean, bright pages. Compact early English-language edition of two foundational novellas by the Nobel laureate. Including the eponymous story that García Márquez himself considered his greatest work. A foundational cornerstone in Latin American literature and a desirable addition to any Gabriel García Márquez first-edition collection. Case 1. . Seller Inventory # 306