The Vampire Lestat.
RICE, Anne.
The Vampire Lestat.
“We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us”: First Edition of The Vampire Lestat; Signed by Anne Rice
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
$475.00
In Stock
Item Number: 151517
First edition of the second book in Anne Rice’s best-selling Vampire Chronicles. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
The Vampire Lestat (1985) by Anne Rice is a lush, dramatic, and irresistibly theatrical continuation of the Vampire Chronicles, in which the charismatic Lestat de Lioncourt takes center stage to tell his own story. Rejecting the brooding portrait painted in Interview with the Vampire, Lestat recounts his transformation in eighteenth-century France, his encounters with ancient vampires, and his rise to fame as a modern rock star who dares to reveal the secrets of the undead. A New York Times bestseller, the book played a significant role in cementing Rice’s popularity and remains one of the most influential and widely read entries in the series.





