Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; 522 pages; Signed by Author
Publisher: Harcourt, 2002, New York
ISBN: 0151006903

[Book #15605]

A very beautiful and desirable First English language Edition, First Printing, Contursi A046c. In Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Umberto Eco directly on the title page. From the personal library of Eco bibliographer James Contursi;

Umberto Eco's return to the middle ages, the year 1204, when Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Baudolino was born a simple peasant in northern Italy. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who adopts Baudolino and sends him to the University in Paris where he makes a number of fearless adventurous friends. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver