The Historian

The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Tepes and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for US$2 million.  The Captain's Bookshelf, a bookstore in North Carolina published a limited edition of this book in an edition of 150 copies, pictured above,  wonderful presentation, new with one small spot on lower spine where something rubbed against it.

Limited 150 signed, numbered and slipcased copies