ECO, UMBERTO — Baudolino
New York: Harcourt, 2002. 0151006903. 1st U.S. Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0151006903. Publisher's full teal paper, copper lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle, orange endpapers. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. This is Umberto Eco's return to the middle ages, the year 1204, when Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Baudolino was born a simple peasant in northern Italy. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (vi), 522 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket .
