Story of a Ship Wrecked Sailor - First English Edition

Langue : anglais

Edité par Jonathan Cape, London, 1986

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GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor London : Jonathan Cape, 1986. First edition in English. Octavo, original boards in illustrated dust jacket (jacket generally very good for the date, no cuts, tears, or fading; not price-clipped, though a price sticker has evidently been removed); pp. 106; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan. Boards square, binding firm; internally clean and unmarked, with no foxing to text block or edges, pages toned with age as expected. The first English-language edition of García Márquez's celebrated work of reporting, telling the true story of Luis Alejandro Velasco, who drifted for ten days without food or water after being swept overboard from a Colombian Navy destroyer in the Caribbean in 1955. The account first appeared as a fourteen-part serial in El Espectador in 1955, written by García Márquez as a young staff reporter. Velasco's true version of events, starkly at odds with the government's official account which caused a sensation, embarrassed the Pinilla dictatorship, and contributed to the eventual closure of the newspaper. García Márquez himself was reluctant to have the piece attributed to him for years afterward, and it was not published in book form in Spanish until 1970, once his international fame as the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude made suppression impossible. This Jonathan Cape edition, translated by Randolph Hogan, was the story's first appearance in English. A very good, clean copy of an important early work by a Nobel laureate author.

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
Story of a Ship Wrecked Sailor - First English Edition
Auteur
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia
Éditeur
Jonathan Cape, London
Année de publication
1986
État de l'article
Assez bon
Jaquette
Assez bon
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
Édition
Edition originale
Impression
1er tirage
Poids de l'article
650 grammes
Dimensions
24 centimètres de largeur par 19 centimètres de hauteur par 12 centimètres de profondeur
Catalogues du vendeur
Amercian Literature, Classics, History, Literary Fiction, Naval History

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