Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; xi, 236 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1983, Bloomington, IN
ISBN: 0253352355

[Book #15653]

First Edition/First Printing with traces of foxing to end papers and page edges, else Fine in Fine dust-jacket. Contursi B20a. From the personal library of Eco Bibliographer James Contursi;

The book's title has its origins in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sign of the Four, then there was the editors' driving compulsion to go back to the funhouse of rampant triplicities, such as are discussed in Sebeok's introductory three-card monte; Advances in Semiotics