Vintage, Toronto, 2003, 7^th pr.  ISBN 978-0-307-38973-2.  Trade soft cover, 348 pages.  Very good; binding sound, faint creases near fore-edge of front wrap.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; gently read if at all.  ‘In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love.  When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic.  As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs – yet he reserves his heart for Fermina.  Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral.  Fifty-one years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.’ (from rear wrap)