Of Love and Other Demons (First Edition)

Knopf, New York, 1995. First American edition, first printing. Hardbound. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket, a perfect unread copy, flawless. Comes with archival quality mylar dust jacket cover. You cannot find a better copy. An attractive production of one of Garcia Marquez's most perfect fictions. This book was purchased new and never even opened. The author's seventh novel to be translated into English. "Of Love and Other Demons" tells the story of a young girl in colonial Colombia who, after being bitten by a rabid dog, is confined to a convent where questions of faith, superstition, and forbidden desire converge. García Márquez (1927-2014), won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is best known for "One Hundred Years of Solitude.".