The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing

Umberto Eco

A most handsome First UK Edition, First Printing (published three days after the US edition) in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Umberto Eco directly on the title page. Contursi A053c;

Yambo, a rare-book dealer in Milan, suffered a loss of memory. While he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries to relive the story of his generation: Mussolini, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire.

Book #15495

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st UK Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author
Size: 8vo; 450 pages
Publisher: London: Secker & Warburg, 2005.
ISBN: 0436205637

Price: $80.00

Author Bio

Eco, Umberto

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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