Umberto Eco : The Island of the Day Before : Signed 1st/1st Hardback in DJ

The Island of the Day Before

By Umberto Eco

Published by Secker and Warburg, London, 1995. First Edition. First Impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback book in an unclipped dust jacket. 515 pages.

CONDITION
A very good signed first edition. The dust jacket is very good with no tears and the original price remains intact. Boards and spine are very good. Endpapers clean. Pages clean throughout. No writing or names other than that of the author's signature. Overall a very good signed first edition.

The Island of the Day Before is a 1994 historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th century during the historical search for the secret of longitude. The central character is Roberto della Griva, an Italian nobleman stranded on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean, and his slowly decaying mental state, in a backdrop of Baroque-era science, metaphysics, and cosmology.

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