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The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Toronto , Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Stated First Edition with A in letter line indicating a first printing. In fine like new condition, appears unread, in a fine dust jacket with price intact. Signed and inscribed by Umberto Eco on title page.
Synopsis
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Postliterate
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3638
- Title
- The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
- Author
- Umberto Eco
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Postliterate
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About the Seller
Postliterate
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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- Letter line
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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