Misreadings - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
by Eco, Umberto
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0156607522
- ISBN 13
- 9780156607520
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine. 1993. First US Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0156607522 . An attractive first American edition/first printing, Contursi A005e, in Fine condition in pictorial wrappers with French flaps with minor dent to front cover, SIGNED by author Umberto Eco directly on the title page; Fifteen satirical essays in which semiotician and novelist Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual; and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. These essays originally appeared in the 1960s in the Italian periodical Il Verri and then in 1963 in Diario Minimo; they appear here for the first time in an English translation by William Weaver; 12mo ; [x],180, [2] pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29234
- Title
- Misreadings - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First US Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156607522
- ISBN 13
- 9780156607520
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Essays Criticisms
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Eco, Umberto; Fiction / Short Fiction;
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