Gabriel García Márquez — Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Knopf First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in first state dust jacket with publisher's error "One Hundred Days of Solitude" (instead of "Years"). Published NY: Knopf, 1983. 8vo., 120pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ""EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered." A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry." Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 128