$762
Estimate: $500 - $800
Auction: June 25 at 11:00 AM ET
1. De Bibliotheca. Milan, 1981. First edition. Inscribed by Eco on title-page to his bibliographer James Contursi. Publisher's stiff wrappers. Contursi A022
2. Sette Anni di Desiderio. Milan: Bompiani, 1983. First edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A024
3. Faith in Fakes. London: Secker & Warburg, (1986). First English edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. The Canberra Times ink stamp on front free endpaper; extensive notations on verso of half-title. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A024b
4. Travels in Hyper Reality. San Diego, etc.: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, (1986). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A024d
5. The Three Astronauts. London: Secker & Warburg, (1989). First English edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi Aa03d
6. The Three Astronauts. San Diego, etc.: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, (1989). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi Aa03c
7. Gli Gnomi di Gnu. (Milan:) Bompiani, (1992). First edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi Aa24a
8. La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta Nella Cultura Europea. (Rome:) Laterza, (1993). First edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A036a
9. Misreadings. London: Jonathan Cape, (1993). First English edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A005f
10. Misreadings. San Diego, etc.: Harcout Brace & Company, (1993). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's stiff wrappers. Contursi A005e
11. Apocalypse Postponed. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, (1994). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A006d
12. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. Cambridge, etc.: Harvard University Press, 1994. First edition. Inscribed by Eco on half-title. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A038b
13. How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays. New York, etc.: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A035d. Includes a signed copy of the prospectus.
14. Kant e L'Ornitorinco. (Milan:) Bompiani, (1997). First and limited edition, #137/500 copies. Signed by Eco on first leaf. Completely unopened. Publisher's wrappers. Contursi A042a
15. Serendipities Language & Lunacy. New York: Columbia University Press, (1998). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A043b
16. Il Problema Estetico in Tommaso D'Aquino. (Milan:) Bompiani, (1998). Reprint. Inscribed by Eco on title-page to his bibliographer James Contursi. Publisher's wrappers.
17. Kant and the Platypus. New York, etc.: Harcourt Brace & Company, (2000). First American edition. Signed by Eco on half-title. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A042e
18. Five Moral Pieces. New York, etc.: Harcourt, Inc., (2001). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Contursi A041c
19. Trifonas, Peter Pericles. Umberto Eco and Football. Duxford: Icon Books, etc., (2001). First edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's wrappers. Contursi F030
20. Le Poetiche di Joyce. (Milan): Bompiani, (2002). Reprint. Inscribed by Eco to his bibliographer James Contursi on half-title. Publisher's wrappers.
21. Turning Back the Clock. London: Harvill Secker, (2006). First English edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket.
22. Turning Back the Clock. Orlando, etc.: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket.
23. On Ugliness. London: Harvill Secker, (2007). First English edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket.
24. The Infinity of Lists. New York: Rizzoli, (2009). First American edition. Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket.
25. This is Not the End of the Book. London: Harvill Secker, (2011). Signed by Eco on title-page. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket.
Lot also includes a first edition of Contursi's Eco bibliography, Umberto Eco: An Annotated Bibliography of First and Important Editions, 2005, signed by Contursi.