Elizabeth Kostova The Historian Signed Limited #137/150

THE HISTORIAN - RARE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - #137 OF 150 PUBLISHED. #1 NYT BESTSELLER

Author: Elizabeth Kostova

Publisher: Little Brown & Company and The Captain's Bookshelf

Year Published: 2005

Pages: 641

Book Size: 8vo - 9 1/2"

Binding: Off white antique looking hardcover, with dragon illustration on the front board and a map of cold war Europe on the inside front and back cover pages. See photos below.

Edition & Printing: First edition, first printing, #137 of 150 published, only 125 were made available to the public.

Dust Jacket: None as issued, comes with an illustrated slipcover, a sixteenth-century map of the Balkans, as issued.

Condition: New

Description: A special gift for any rare book collector. Original retail price of $350 per copy and now can't be found for less than $730! This book was a NYT bestseller and the author's first book.

This is a very uncommon signed limited first edition, one of only 150 signed numbered copies. This book debuted at number one on the NY Times Best Seller list and won the 2005 Quill award for best debut novel.

This book has a unique binding only for this edition and is housed in a slipcase made from a reproduction of a sixteenth-century map of the Balkans by Sebastian Munster. The front cover has a dragon illustration by Luis Campos.

Of the 150 copies published 25 were reserved for the author Elizabeth Kostova, Little Brown and Company (the trade publisher) and The Captain's Bookshelf (the limited edition publisher), making only 125 available to the public. Sold out from the publisher very quickly at $350 per copy.

The title on the spine of the book has been translated to Latin - Historiographus, (the text of the book is in English) to match the design of the slipcover. Interestingly, the year 2008 is printed on the base of the spine which is when the story takes place even though the book was published in 2005.

From the book jacket of the trade edition, "In this riveting debut of breathtaking scope, a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could -- to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula.

When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all addressed ominously to "My dear and unfortunate successor..." she begins to unravel a thread that leads back to her father's past, his mentor's career, and an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright: a hunt that nearly brought her father to ruin and may have claimed the life of his adviser and dear friend, history professor Bartholomew Rossi.

What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler, the historical Dracula, have to do with the 20th century? Is it possible that Dracula has lived on in the modern world? And why have a select few historians risked reputation, sanity, and even their lives to learn the answer? So begins an epic journey to unlock the secrets of the strange medieval book, an adventure that will carry our heroine across Europe and into the past -- not only to the times of Vlad's heinous reign, but to the days when her mother was alive and her father was still a vibrant young scholar. In the end, she uncovers the startling fate of Rossi, and comes face to face with the definition of evil-- to find, ultimately, that good may not always triumph."

About the Author: Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the best Novel-in-Progress.

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