Interview With The Vampire.

RICE, Anne.

Item Number: 132225

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John all blessings Anne Rice 2013.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. Photograph by Martha Kaplan. An exceptional example.

Anne Rice’s first novel is a "seminal modern vampire novel" but also a "profoundly modern exploration of human sexuality, religious beliefs and personal philosophies Rice’s interweaving of fiction and historical fact and atmospheric rendering of New Orleans as a city where the living and undead mingle are particularly powerful [Her] Vampire Chronicles are landmarks of modern horror fiction almost single-handedly responsible for the phenomenal popularity of the vampire story at the end of the 20th century" (Barron, Fantasy and Horror 303).