Baudolino - first US edition

by Umberto Eco - signed

It is 1204 and Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own magical story to him.

Book has lime green with spine lettering stamped in copper. Fine condition, author's signature on title page.

Jacket is also fine, price intact at and in mylar.