THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA
by UMBERTO ECO
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151011400
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011407
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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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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Details
- Seller
- Louise Aird (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);
Terms of Sale
Louise Aird
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- Shelfwear
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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