Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera - First UK Edition 1988

A first UK edition, first printing of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1988. A very good copy, with clean, unmarked pages and a firm binding. Housed in the original unclipped dust jacket, showing light handling wear and mild age-toning, but remaining bright and intact.

Love in the Time of Cholera is one of García Márquez’s most enduring novels, charting a lifelong love affair across decades of separation, illness, and social change. Set against a richly textured Caribbean backdrop, the novel explores time, memory, desire, and devotion with the author’s characteristic lyricism, marking a more intimate and reflective counterpoint to the epic sweep of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

This first UK edition represents the initial English-language appearance of one of García Márquez’s most widely read and beloved works, and remains a cornerstone title in modern Latin American literature.