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Softcover, fine condition, first printing. No creasing to the spine. Boards are clean and unmarked, and the pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First Back Bay paperback printing of The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, published by Back Bay Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company in 2006, following the novel's original hardcover publication by Little, Brown and Company in 2005. A multigenerational Gothic tale of a scholar's search for the truth behind the Dracula legend, It was the first debut novel to reach number one on the New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author and the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year for Best Adult Fiction.

A hardcover in new condition. The boards are clean and unmarked. the pages are clean and unmarked throughout, and the book appears unread. A bright first edition. Elizabeth Kostova's The Shadow Landl, published by Ballantine Books in 2017.

A softcover in very good condition. The boards are clean and unmarked, with no creasing along the spine or edges. The pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First Back Bay Paperback edition.

This first printing hardcover is in fine condition, with clean pages. The boards and gilt spine lettering are pristine, and the dust jacket is unmarked. The Historian is the debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova, published in 2005 by Little, Brown and Company. It was the first debut novel to reach number one on the New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale, and as of its publication year was the fastest-selling hardback debut novel in US history. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author and the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year for Best Adult Fiction. Kostova took ten years to research and write the novel, drawing on her Yale education and the Dracula stories her father told her as a child.