First Edition thus, First Printing. Limited Deluxe Edition, #34 of only 150 printed. Signed by Kostova (25 copies were retained by the author for personal use). Fine, as new. No jacket as issued. Specially-bound and housed in a beautiful slipcase covered in a reproduction of a sixteenth-century map of the Balkans by Sebastian Munster. The title has been translated into medieval Latin, "Historiographus." Dragon illustration to front board by Luis Campos. Folded and gathered unbound sheets from the first edition, first printing of The Historian were used in the production of this special limited edition. Octavo. 642 pp. An amazing deluxe edition of this famous work. A perfect collector's copy.