Postscript to the Name of the Rose (First Edition)

Eco, Umberto

ISBN 10: 015173156X / ISBN 13: 9780151731565

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1984

About this Item

New York, HBJ, 1984. First edition. First printing (with full letter line including ABCDE) Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($8.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated. 4 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 77 pages.

Seller Inventory # Lit-Eco

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postscript to the Name of the Rose (First Edition)
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015173156X
• ISBN 13: 9780151731565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Italian Literature

About this title

Synopsis

This book stems from Umberto Eco's account of the genesis of his extraordinary novel, The Name of the Rose, but, like the novel itself, it goes far beyond the particular: '...in March 1978 ... I had the urge to poison a monk.' Along the way, it touches on bad books, ideal readers, historical form, and the metaphysics of the detective story.

Language Notes

Text: English, Italian (translation)