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THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA

THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA

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THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA

by UMBERTO ECO

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ISBN 10
0151011400
ISBN 13
9780151011407
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About This Item

This is an unread (stated) first edition of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, an illustrated novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco. It was first published in Italian in 2004; in English in 2005. The title is taken from the title of an Italian edition album of an episode of the American comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck.

It is about a book dealer who loses his memory and has to go back through his life to regain his identity. This involves studying The Mysterious Flame, which is filled with images from books, magazines and comics.

It is plain orange boards with gold lettering on the spine. There are hundreds of illustrations, and comic book clippings, mostly in color. The dust jacket is unclipped; there is the tiniest amount of shelfwear to the top of the jacket. There are no marks anywhere in or on it.

This book has not been opened. It is in mint condition.

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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Seller
Louise Aird CA (CA)
Seller's Inventory #
722
Title
THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA
Author
UMBERTO ECO
Format/Binding
Mint Condition
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First English
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0151011400
ISBN 13
9780151011407
Publisher
Harcourt
Place of Publication
United States
Date Published
2005
Keywords
Tim Tyler's Luck, Book Dealer, Mysterious Flame
Bookseller catalogs
Fantasy & Science Fiction; Southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Greece);

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Louise Aird

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About Louise Aird

Private individual who has been collecting books for 40 years.

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Shelfwear
Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...

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