Love in the Time of Cholera (Inscribed first edition)
- SIGNED
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition in English. Near Fine/Very Good+. Warmly inscribed on the dedication page by Gabriel García Márquez to actress Samantha Eggar, with a doodle of a flower: "Una flor para Samantha, de su amigo, Gabriel - 2000" ("A flower for Samantha, from your friend"). A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth boards, sunned at top edge. With the bookplate of Samantha Eggar to upper pastedown. Some toning to upper endpapers, otherwise a very clean copy. Unclipped dust jacket faded at edges, spine, and back panel. A fresh example overall, with an exceptional inscription.
García Márquez's iconic novel of love, passion, and death is considered his best alongside One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel was García Márquez's first published after he won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts" (Nobel Foundation). It was adapted for the screen in 2007 starring Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiornio, and Benjamin Bratt.
Samantha Eggar (1939 - 2025) was an Academy Award-nominated actress best known for her breakout appearance in The Collector (1965), for which she won Best Actress at Cannes and a Golden Globe, and her starring role in David Cronenberg's cult classic The Brood (1979). Born in London, Eggar began her career as a Shakespearean actor, before establishing herself in film in the mid-1960s and moving to Los Angeles in 1970. Eggar was also an avid book collector and a friend of the author Graham Greene. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.
García Márquez's iconic novel of love, passion, and death is considered his best alongside One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel was García Márquez's first published after he won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts" (Nobel Foundation). It was adapted for the screen in 2007 starring Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiornio, and Benjamin Bratt.
Samantha Eggar (1939 - 2025) was an Academy Award-nominated actress best known for her breakout appearance in The Collector (1965), for which she won Best Actress at Cannes and a Golden Globe, and her starring role in David Cronenberg's cult classic The Brood (1979). Born in London, Eggar began her career as a Shakespearean actor, before establishing herself in film in the mid-1960s and moving to Los Angeles in 1970. Eggar was also an avid book collector and a friend of the author Graham Greene. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.