Love in the Time of Cholera Signed First Edition Reference

El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Editorial La Oveja Negra, Bogotá, 1985; English: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, translated by Edith Grossman) is García Márquez’s great love novel. Florentino Ariza waits fifty-one years, nine months, and four days for Fermina Daza — through her marriage to another man, through the cholera epidemics of the Caribbean coast, through the ravages of age. The novel’s insistence that love endures — that passion is not merely possible but inevitable in old age — is García Márquez’s most optimistic statement.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed Spanish first: $200–$500
• Signed English first (Knopf): $100–$300
• Unsigned English first: $15–$30

Love in the Time of Cholera is the most commercially successful García Márquez novel after One Hundred Years of Solitude — widely loved by readers who find the earlier novel too demanding.