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MARQUEZ**, GABRIEL GARCIA: : of love & other demons. [An Uncorrected Proof.]

LONDON.CAPE,1995.

ISBN 014024669X.

UK,8vo,original wraps,uncorrected proof. [Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author, editors, proofreaders and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] FINE - unread.Some slight grubbing to rear cover along spine/backstrip.Translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman. As a young reporter,in 1949,in Cartegena, Marquez witnessed the opening of several tombs as an old convent made way for a new hotel.One of the tombs contained a skeleton of a young girl with a head of prodigiously long hair.This is the story of that girl, Sierra Maria de Todos los Angeles,who at the age of twelve is bitten by a rabid dog and handed over by her father to a convent.There she is thought to be possessed by devils and locked up.The bishop orders a priest to exorcise her.Instead he falls in love. He is banished to a leper colony,but climbs into the convent to spend nights with Sierra and her reams of red hair.A fairy tale with a bitter ending,a moving love story,reminiscent of 'Love in the Time of Cholera' - see my book ID rja815318 for UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn. Want more Gabriel Garcia MARQUEZ titles? For similar and other available titles,please search my MODERN FIRSTS and MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues.  Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo wraps,uncorrected proof.
Not SIGNED.

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