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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.