Baudolino - Advance Reading Copy

New York: Harcourt. Fine. 2002. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. Softcover. 0151006903 . Advance Reading Copy of the first American edition, first printing, Contursi A046b. In Fine condition in pictorial wrappers. From the personal library of Eco bibliographer James Contursi; 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. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver; 8vo; 522 pages . (Inventory #: 15700)