Book #15641

Semiotics And The Philosophy Of Language - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Umberto Eco
Book #15641 Semiotics And The Philosophy Of Language - 1st US Edition/1st Printing. Umberto Eco.
Semiotics And The Philosophy Of Language - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1983.
ISBN: 0253351685

First US edition/first printing, Gilt-stamped blue cloth in Very Good+ condition in Nearly Fine, slightly rubbed dustjacket with lightly soiled rear panel. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page by author Umberto Eco to his bibliographer, James Contursi. A superb association copy from the personal library of James Contursi. Contursi A025b.

Professor for Semiotics Umberto Eco covers the tradition of the doctrine of signs from symbolic and allegorical readings of the Holy Scriptures, insights of the fields of philosophy and rhetoric to the various positions of modern literary criticism ; 8vo; ix, 242 pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $690.00

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.

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