Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 4to; [20] leaves pages; Signed by Author
Publisher: Bompiani editore, 1966, Milano
Illustrator: Illustrated by Carmi, Eugenio; Color Illustrations

[Book #15617]

A scarce First Edition/First Printing (Finito di stampare nel mese di ottobre 1966) , Contursi Aa03a. Minor lamination bubbling to covers, little soiling and water staining to end papers, else Near Fine in pictorial paper-covered boards, lacking the dust-wrapper. Signed by author Umberto Eco on the title page. From the personal library of Eco Bibliographer James Contursi ;

Three astronauts from different countries land on Mars, meet a strange Martian, and make an amazing discovery about the nature of humanity. The second of three children's books of Eco. Not just for children. In the original Italian language. Translated into The Three Astronauts in 1989