1990 ANNE RICE THE WITCHING HOUR Mayfair Witchcraft Occult First Edition HCDJ
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1990 ANNE RICE THE WITCHING HOUR Mayfair Witchcraft Occult First Edition HCDJ. THE WITCHING HOUR. On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking…andThe Witching Hour begins. “The author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles—Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, andThe Queen of the Damned —gives us now a huge hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Written by Anne Rice and published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Copyright 1990; “First Edition” is stated on the copyright page. DESCRIPTION: 965 pages 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches First printing, hardcover with dustjacket CONDITION: This hard-cover book is in good+ condition with like dustjacket. The cover (black paper covered boards with black cloth spine) is worn at the corners and has some fade spots in the cloth of the spine. There is a water-stain in the upper corner of the front pastedown and a small stain on the outer page edges. The interior is excellent with no names, marks, tears etc. The binding and hinges are very good. The dust jacket is complete with the price on the front flap. The inside of the jacket shows staining in the same area—upper corner of the front flap—that corresponds to the stain in the book. The corners at the spine areas, top and bottom, are worn. This dust jacket will come with a new brodart mylar cover. From Wikipedia: Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002. Rice's books have sold nearly 100 million copies, placing her among the most popular authors in recent American history. From the dust jacket description: “The author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles—Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and The Queen of the Damned —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. 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 a long-ago Amsterdam and a chateau in the France of Louis XIV. An intimate 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. BECAUSE MEDIA RATE SHIPPING IS FREE ON THE BOOKS I SELL, COMBINE THIS WITH OTHER ITEMS FROM MY EBAY STORE. Do not hesitate to ask any questions or ask for more pictures. Please note; free shipping for all items that cost over $350 will include insurance and signature confirmation. ALL ITEMS ARE CAREFULLY AND SECURELY PACKED TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE DANGER OF CRUSHING AND OR WATER/MOISTURE DAMAGE. ALL BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN STURDY BOXES WITH TRACKING AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED.
