The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - first US edition
by Umberto Eco - signed
A sixty-ish Milanese antiquarian bookseller nicknamed Yambo suffers a stroke
and loses his memory of everything but the words he has read: poems, scenes from
novels, miscellaneous quotations. His wife Paola fills in the bare essentials of
his family history, but in order to trigger original memories, Yambo retreats
alone to his ancestral home at Solara, a large country house with an improbably
intact collection of family papers, books, gramophone records, and photographs.
Using the cache of memorabilia amassed in his youth during Mussolini's reign and
WWII begins to try to recover his past. Illustrated with the cartoons, sheet
music covers, and book jackets that Yambo uncovers in his search.
Book has rust-brown boards with the title in gold on the spine. Signed by the
author on the title page.
Jacket is price-intact at $27.00; protected in mylar.