Baudolino - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing

London: Secker & Warburg. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0436276038 . First British edition/first printing, gilt-stamped blue cloth in Near Fine condition showing some tanning to pages. In alike pictorial dust-wrapper. Contursi A046e; 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; 521, [1] pages . (Inventory #: 19888)