Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco — 1st Edition

£37.50

Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco — 1st Edition

Name: Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco — 1st Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 6986
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Publication: London, Secker & Warburg, 1989

Formatting: 8vo, pp. [viii], 641.

Condition Report: Fine. The publisher’s original black cloth binding remains tight and structurally sound, with bright, unoxidised silver gilt lettering to the spine. The text block is clean and firmly bound; typical of the 1989 paper stock, the physical evidence of paper aging reveals light, even toning across the text block edge treatments, though the pages remain entirely free from foxing or significant blemishes. The original unclipped dust jacket is exceptionally well-preserved, boasting bright, vibrant panels with only the most trivial hints of shelf-wear to the extremities. The volume is free from internal markings or previous ownership signatures.

Catalogue Note: This is the first UK edition, first impression of Umberto Eco's highly acclaimed second novel, following the monumental success of The Name of the Rose. The English translation by William Weaver was published a year after the original Italian release. This copy is presented in its original, unclipped dust jacket.

Copies maintaining such crisp, unrubbed dust jackets and clean boards without heavy reading wear remain desirable for collectors seeking well-preserved examples of Eco's landmark work.

Three Milanese vanity press editors, steeped in the reading of occult and esoteric manuscripts, invent their own complex conspiracy theory as a private joke. They feed historical facts, Kabbalistic lore, and Rosicrucian myths into a computer, mapping out a vast, centuries-old secret society plot to control the world. But their intellectual game spirals out of control when independent occultists begin to take their fabricated "Plan" seriously, blurring the terrifying line between paranoid fantasy and deadly reality in a labyrinthine intellectual thriller.

Book Condition: Fine

Book Authors: Umberto Eco

Book Publisher: Secker & Warburg

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Thriller & Suspense

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 649

Book Publication Year: 1989

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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