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Rice, Anne. The Witching Hour. Alfred A. Knopf (1990), New York, 1990.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No signatures. Some foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Third printing, in same month as the first printing (November 1990). 966 pages. Black papered boards with black cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Black emblem on front board. Page dimensions: 233 x 154mm. "The author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles [ . . .] gives us now a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches - a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being." - from dust-jacket blurb.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Anne Rice. The Witching Hour: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 Book; binding tight with mild pull to head band and mild damp stain to bottom spine, minor bump to top rear edge else boards straight and clean; minor bump to top corner else text free of marks, appears gently read. Dust jacket ($22.95) has mild bumping to spine ends and cover edges with rubbing and 1/2" closed tear to top rear flap fold end and mild damp stain to inside only bottom rear spine. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Twinwillow Books, Los Alamitos, CA, U.S.A.
Anne Rice. The Witching Hour: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 Book; binding tight with mild pull to head band, straight boards have mild soiling to front; minor soiling to edges else text free of marks, appears gently read. Dust jacket ($22.95) has mild bumping to spine ends and to top edges. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Twinwillow Books, Los Alamitos, CA, U.S.A.
RICE, Anne. Interview With The Vampire. Alfred S. Knopf, New York, 1990.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 1990 edition, octavo, original black cloth over boards, blind stamped publishers colophon on cover, gilt stamped lettering on spine. The first book in The Vampire Chronicles from the boxed edition, this edition only; signed by author, Anne Rice, on front free endpaper. Very Good; red dot on bottom edge, red stripe on top edge.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
RICE, Anne. The Vampire Lestat. Alfred S. Knopf, New York, 1990.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 1990 edition, octavo, original black cloth over boards, blind stamped publishers colophon on cover, gilt stamped lettering on spine. The first book in The Vampire Chronicles from the boxed edition, this edition only; signed by author, Anne Rice, on front free endpaper. Very Good; red dot on bottom edge, red stripe on top edge.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book One: "Published May 5, 1976" stated. Book Two: "Published October 31, 1985" stated. Book Three: "Published October 31, 1988" stated. "Boxed edition, November 14, 1990" stated in all three volumes and '1990' stated on all title pages. All volumes fine hardbacks. No dust jackets. Only trivial, if any signs of age/wear/previous use to any of the three volumes. In very good plus plus, if not near fine slipcase. Slipcase sound but with moderate, if not minor creases/wear to the corners, edges and extremities of illustrated paper covering. Signed by author on the front free endpapers of all three volumes.
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Rice, Anne. The Witching Hour. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [10], 965, [1] pages. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Gift inscription (not from author) on the fep. Small stain on fep. DJ has some wear and soiling. Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 - December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature. She was best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles. The first book became the subject of a film adaptationâ"Interview with the Vampire (1994). While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she gained a better reception with critics in the 1980s. Her writing style and the literary content of her works have been analyzed by literary commentators. Shortly after her June 1988 return to New Orleans, Rice penned The Witching Hour as an expression of her joy at coming home. Rice also continued her Vampire Chronicles series, which later grew to encompass ten novels, and followed up on The Witching Hour with Lasher and Taltos, completing the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani wrote that "Anne Rice has what might best be described as a Gothic imagination crossed with a campy taste for the decadent and the bizarre." From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking . . . and The Witching Hour begins. It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery--aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches--finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and--in passionate alliance--set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV. An intricate tale of evil unfolds--an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first "witch," Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher . . . a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn. From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien--the clan's only male to be endowed with occult powers--provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing. And always--through peril and escape, tension and release--there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death. With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Three volume set. Hardcovers. The first three books in Rice's very popular vampire series. All three books are very fine copy and in a fine slipcase and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Signed by Rice. An as new set.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$1002.10 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1005.61 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.