Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: Advance Review Copy; First Printing
Size: 12mo ; 165 pages; Signed by Author
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993, New York

[Book #15727]

Uncorrected Proof of the First American Edition/First Printing, Contursi A005d in unread Fine condition in matte wrappers, SIGNED by author Umberto Eco directly on the title page;

Fifteen satirical essays in which semiotician and novelist Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual; and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. These essays originally appeared in the 1960s in the Italian periodical Il Verri and then in 1963 in Diario Minimo; they appear here for the first time in an English translation by William Weaver