Book #14429

Baudolino - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Umberto Eco
Book #14429 Baudolino - 1st US Edition/1st Printing. Umberto Eco.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002.
ISBN: 0151006903

A beautiful first English language edition, first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Contursi A046c.

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 by William Weaver; 8vo; [vi], 522 pages.

Price: $50.00

Author Bio

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.