but its stock has risen dramatically in recent years and it is now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works" (ODNB)
uncommonly found in such lovely condition
A very nice
with binding a little fragile with front and rear hinges beginning to crack and a handful of breaks to gutter throughout
Some fold-out prints partially cut where they fold
The Island of the Day Before Agatha Christie but its stock has risenUmberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before. London: Secker and Warburg, [1995]. First UK Ed & Print, signed by the author. The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before. If he could reach it, time