Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; [6], 502 pages
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, San Diego
ISBN: 0151446474

[Book #15318]

First American Edition/First Printing in with prior owner blindstamp in otherwise Fine condition in clipped, Near Fine pictorial dustjacket, light shades of use along spine edges. Contursi A021d ;

Eco's mystery set in a monastic library. In 1327, a time of tension between the Pope and the Holy Roman Empire, English Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate heresy among the monks at an Italian abbey. His task is overshadowed by a series of bizarre murders. This is a tale of books, librarians, patrons, censorship and the search for the truth. Translated by William Weaver.

Eco's first novel and basis for the 1986 film starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater. The Italian edition was winner of the Premio Strega, Prix Medicis Etranger and Premio Anghiari awards