BARDUGO, Leigh. Shadow and Bone. NY: Henry Holt [2012]. 8vo, [x] 358pp. Black boards with spine stamped in red. Red endpapers; two-page pictorial map. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Leigh Bardugo!

 

First edition. The first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the start of the Grishaverse! Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves her life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha… and the secrets of her heart. The basis for the Netflix series.