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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1980. First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time, basis for the film starring Sean Connery. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "a Charlie Winick Umberto Ecco 16 June 83." The recipient, Charles Winick, was an American author, psychologist, professor of anthropology and sociology, and academic, noted for his work in the fields of gender, drug addiction, and prostitution. After serving in Military Intelligence during World War II, he was a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the City College of New York, taught at Columbia University, and was the author of more than 40 books, including The New People: Desexualization in American Life, published in 1969, in which he contended that American society was "following the path of Ancient Greece and Rome" by gradually becoming a "neutered society." His… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page - " for Nan the only of my ( furlogh?) books she did not co-authored ( what a pity !) Umberto June 83 from the Bloomington Abbey". A wonderful and notably personal Association Copy, no other signed copies of Eco's books found without his surname. Nan Miller was an editor at Indiana University Press for over 30 years. In Indiana University President Thomas Ehrlich's 1993 address for Eco's Honorary Degree for Doctor of Humane Letters he noted that " ... for more than 15 years, Indiana University has been a home away from home. One draw was the university's Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies in Bloomington. Another was the Indiana University Press, which inaugurated its Advances in Semiotics series with Professor… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1983. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR in the year of publication on the half-title page - "for Nan Miller Umberto Eco, June 83". An excellent Association Copy, Nan Miller was an editor at Indiana University Press for over 30 years. In IU Preident Thomas Ehrlich's 1993 address for Eco's Honorary Degree for Doctor of Humane Letters he noted that " ... for more than 15 years, Indiana University has been a home away from home. One draw was the university's Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies in Bloomington. Another was the Indiana University Press, which inaugurated its Advances in Semiotics series with Professor Eco's first major English publication, A Theory of Semiotics. Since then, the IU Press has published five additional books in semiotics that were authored,… Read More

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151446474 . Very light edge speckle. Mild wear to dustjacket. Now protected in a clear mylar cover. ; Simply signed on a laid in signature by Umberto Eco. Letter line BCDE with the First Edition slug. Additional photos available on request. ; 1.8 x 9.4 x 6.4 Inches; 512 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Secker & Warburg, 1980. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Umberto Eco and inscribed to a former owner. Near Fine with light sunning to bottom edge; slight bruising to corners. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine, light wear to surface laminate. Umberto Eco's medieval murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327.

NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0151446474 . Signed on the title page. Owner's name at the top of the front flap of the DJ. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 502 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Secker & Warburg.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First U. K. Edition. SIGNED by Umberto Eco on title page. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. (Some lamination lines on front cover. ) Less common than it's American counterpart. ; 4 3/4" x 7 3/4"; 84 pages .

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good or Better. An uncorrected proof of the first U. S. edition.A very good plus copy with some fading to the cover, wear to the extremities and a snag on the front cover.? Light sunning to the spine. Signed by Umberto Eco on the title page. ? The basis for the movie that starred Sean Connery. This was Eco's first novel, one that many critics now call a more sophisticated--and more insightful novel than another blockbuster? that was set in the Middle Ages.

Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1984. First American edition, first printing. First American edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth, with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 11 black and white photographs. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with bumping and rubbing to the extremities, the contents clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper, that is without fading loss or tears. Not price clipped ($8.95 to the front flap). Signed by Umberto Eco in blue ink on the title page. The author provides insight into the planning, research and writing of his award winning masterpiece of historical crime fiction 'The Name of the Rose'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.