Books and Manuscripts

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.