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126. GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. No One Writes to the Colonel. NY: Harper & Row (1968). The first American edition of his first book to be published in English, well after the original publication in Spanish but before the success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. The title novella in this collection was first published in 1961; the rest of the stories were published in a collection in 1962. Trace foxing to top edge; still a fine copy in a fine, first issue dust jacket.
127. GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. London: Jonathan Cape (1970). The first British edition of his masterwork, one of the most important novels of the century, which introduced magical realism to a wide audience and helped bring the boom in Latin American literature to this country when it was published in the U.S. in 1970. At the end of the 1970's this book was voted by the editors of The New York Times Book Review to be not only the best book published in the last ten years but the one most likely to still be read and to still be important one hundred years hence. García Márquez has since been awarded the Nobel Prize, among countless other literary awards. Tiny corner bumps; else fine in a very good dust jacket with internally tape-repaired edge tears. A high spot of Twentieth Century world literature.
128. GARDNER, John. Grendel. NY: Knopf (1971). The uncorrected proof copy of Gardner's third novel, which many think his best. A retelling of the Beowulf legend from the perspective of the monster, this novel allowed Gardner to incorporate his knowledge as a scholar of old English literature into his contemporary fiction in a way no other of his books did. This proof is in tall wrappers, reproducing page numbers in holograph, and with the title page and cover reproduced from typescript. Small price and publication month written in ink on the front cover. This is the only copy of this proof we have ever seen offered on the market. Fine in a custom slipcase.
129. GARDNER, John. October Light. NY: Knopf, 1977. The uncorrected proof copy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Publication date and price written in ink on the front cover. Near fine in tall wrappers. A scarce proof of one of Gardner's best-loved and most critically acclaimed books.
130. GASS, William. Reading Rilke. NY: Knopf, 1999. The uncorrected proof copy. A meditation on both the poet and the problems of translation as presented in the Duino Elegies, Gass's translations of which are included in this volume. Near fine in wrappers with dust jacket art stapled inside the front cover.
131. GINSBERG, Allen. Deliberate Prose. (NY): HarperCollins (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of this massive (500+ pages) collection of essays. More than four decades of essays, arranged by subject and covering politics, drugs, spirituality, sex, literature, the Beats, and writers such as Kerouac, Burroughs, Snyder, etc. Fine in wrappers.
132. GORDIMER, Nadine. The Conservationist. London: Cape (1974). The uncorrected proof of the first British edition of this novel, winner of the Booker Prize. Near fine in wrappers with publisher's plain printed label affixed to the front cover. A scarce proof, and the Nobel Prize-winner's only Booker winner.
133. GORDIMER, Nadine. Living in Hope and History. NY: FSG (1999). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this collection of essays, reports and reflections spanning 50 years. Fine in wrappers.
134. GRASS, Günter. My Century. NY: Harcourt Brace (1999). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of his most recent book, a collection of one hundred stories, one for each year. Grass, author of the classic The Tin Drum, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. Fine in wrappers.
135. GURGANUS, Allan. "Feeling more herself, she finishes the breakfast dishes..." Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1990. A broadside excerpt from White People, printed on the occasion of a reading by the author. 6 1/2" x 11". Fine, and signed by the author in 1992.