Baudolino - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

New York: Harcourt, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151006903 . A beautiful first English language edition, first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Contursi A046c; Umberto Eco's return to the middle ages, the year 1204, when Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Baudolino was born a simple peasant in northern Italy. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends. Translated by William Weaver; 8vo; [vi], 522 pages .