The Island of the Day Before
by Eco, Umberto
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151001510
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001514
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. 1st U. S. Edition (stated). 1. Hard Cover. 0151001510 . Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (xii), 515 pp .
Synopsis
In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessel’s mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his era’s obsession with science and navigation. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26453
- Title
- The Island of the Day Before
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st U. S. Edition (stated). 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151001510
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001514
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- 0151001510, Fiction;, Novels;, Literature;, Historical Fiction, Travel
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Palatine, Illinois
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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