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THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA; Umberto Eco / An illustrated Novel / Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
by Eco, Umberto
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151011400
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011407
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Orlando Austen New York San Diego Toronto London: Harcourt, Inc, 2005. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Illustrated with Full-Color Cartoon Figures. Small quarto (9 3/8" x 6 1/4")x 1 5/8"), copper-colored cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated with 11 full-page colored illustrations--often drawing on older comicbook and Pop Culture characters, 469 pages. Umberto Eco. OMRI (1932 - 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and novelist. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by the greatly missed author of The Name of the Rose. A translation of La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana.<br/> <br/> A Milanese rare book dealer ransacks the Italian and cultural past to recover lost memories.
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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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7922
- Title
- THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA; Umberto Eco / An illustrated Novel / Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Illustrator
- Illustrated with Full-Color Cartoon Figures
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151011400
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011407
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Orlando Austen New York San Diego Toronto London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Science, navigation, 17th century, war, ocean, Pacific, exploration, Jesuits, cartography, love, Catholicism
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Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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