signed first edition Hardcover
1995 · Asheville, North Carolina
by LORD, Anthony and Elizabeth Kostova
Asheville, North Carolina: The Captain's Bookshelf, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Copy number 21 of 310 numbered copies Signed by Kostova on the titlepage, and additionally Inscribed by her to her fellow author Nicholas Delbanco: "To Nicholas and Elena with gratitude and admiration and a shared love of France. Elizabeth Kostova." Delbanco taught creative writing at the University of Michigan where Kostova received her MFA and where she won the Hopgood Award. Delbanco is mentioned in the acknowledgments:of her second novel, *The Swan Thief* thusly: "Nicholas Delbanco, cherished mentor, for his reading and for discussions (truncated)