Price: US$32.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full colour hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Dampstain on the jacket interior, which has transferred to the outer boards, however this has not affected the pages at all. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Eco, Umberto; Carmi, Eugenio. THE GNOMES OF GNU. Bompiani / Stefanel, Milan, 1992.
Price: US$104.44 + shipping
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$139.22 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [36] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Translated from the Italian. Subjects: Interstellar travel ; Pictorial works ; Juvenile fiction. Life on other planets ; Pictorial works ; Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [36] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Translated from the Italian. Subjects: Interstellar travel ; Pictorial works ; Juvenile fiction. Life on other planets ; Pictorial works ; Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Umberto Eco, Eugenio Carmi. [INSCRIBED] [1ST ENG ED] The Gnomes of Gnu. Bompiani, Milan, 1992.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English language edition of Eco and Carmi's adventure, "[a] children's story to also make adults (and potentates) stop and think. Fairy-tale? Science fiction? Ecological warning? All of these but also a bit of reality." 4to, 36 pages, red-stamped off-white cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 17 full-page color illustrations by renowned Italian artist Eugenio Carmi, who has inscribed the book on the front free endpaper. Light bumping and rubbing to dj.
Seller: Weinberg Modern Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First US editions of three philosophical children's books by Umberto Eco, each signed by him. In THE BOMB AND THE GENERAL, the atoms that fuel a belligerent general's atomic bomb go on strike, demoting the general to a doorman in order "to make use of his uniform with all the braid." In THE THREE ASTRONAUTS, rival astronauts from the United States, Russia, and China find common ground on Mars, where they overcome their prejudices and befriend a Martian they had intended to kill. In THE GNOMES OF GNÙ, a space explorer attempts to bring civilization to the planet of Gnù, whose peaceful inhabitants decline when they learn about the pollution and sickness rife on Earth. All three books feature ingenious mixed-media collages by the Italian abstractionist Eugenio Carmi. The first two, BOMB and ASTRONAUTS, appeared in Italian in 1966; the final title, GNOMES, followed in 1992. From 1989 to 1992, all three books were translated into English to capitalize on Eco's global reputation as the author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1980) and FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM (1988). A fine set, scarce signed by Umberto Eco. Three volumes, each 10.75'' x 8.25''. BOMB and ASTRONAUTS: Original color pictorial boards. In original pictorial dust jackets. GNOMES: Original white cloth boards lettered in red. In original color pictorial dust jacket. ALL: Color illustrations by Carmi throughout text. Each signed by Eco in ink. Jacket of BOMB clipped. Only a bit of light bumping here and there.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.