Book #15658

Misreadings - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Umberto Eco
Book #15658 Misreadings - 1st US Edition/1st Printing. Umberto Eco.

Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine+
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993.
ISBN: 0156607522

A very attractive first American edition/first printing (Contursi A005e) in unread Very Fine condition in pictorial wrappers.

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; 12mo ; [x], 180, [2] pages.

Price: $60.00

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.