Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st UK Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; 521, [1] pages
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 2002, London
ISBN: 0436276038

[Book #19888]

First British Edition/First Printing, gilt-stamped blue cloth in Fine condition in alike pictorial dust-wrapper. Contursi A046e;

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