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Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA
Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA Anne Rice "The Witching Hour" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA

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"Impressive...The Witching Hour is a marvel of energy and inventiveness...Powerful." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

Personally signed by Anne Rice directly into the book


New York 1990. Alfred A. Knopf Publishers. Anne Rice "The Witching Hour". Personally signed by Anne Rice directly onto the FFEP (First Free End Paper) of the book. First Edition, First Printing. "FIRST EDITION" as stated on the copyright page. Hardcover book with original dust-jacket. Not price clipped. 965 pages. Bookseller issued COA included.
 
A rare book for the discerning collector of autographed Anne Rice.
 
Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.

The Witching Hour: A Novel (Lives of Mayfair Witches)

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.

 
 

 

 

About Anne Rice

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature. She is best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles, which revolve around the central character Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations—Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Queen of the Damned (2002).

Born in New Orleans, Rice spent much of her early life there before moving to Texas, and later to San Francisco. She was raised in an observant Catholic family but became an agnostic as a young adult. She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. In the mid-2000s, following a publicized return to Catholicism, Rice published the novels Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, fictionalized accounts of certain incidents in the life of Jesus. Several years later she distanced herself from organized Christianity, citing disagreement with the Church's stances on social issues but pledging that faith in God remained "central to [her] life." However, she now considers herself a secular humanist.

Rice's books have sold over 150 million copies, making her one of the most popular and best-selling authors of all-time. While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she became more popular with critics and readers in the 1980s. Her writing style and the literary content of her works have been analyzed by literary commentators. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002 at age 60. She and Stan had two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age five, and Christopher, who is also an author.

In addition to her vampire novels, Rice has authored books such as The Feast of All Saints (adapted for television in 2001) and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics and manga by various publishers. Rice has also authored erotic fiction under the pen names Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure, including Exit to Eden, which was later adapted into a 1994 film.

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Near Fine+ book with Fine dust-jacket. Sharp corners that are not bumped. A wonderful bright clean copy free of any marks, writing, or stamps. Slight spine curvature to top of page-block. The bottom of the spine is square and tight. The DJ is Fine without any closed or open tears. No edge-wear. The book appears unread. No attached bookplates or indication of any removed.
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf Publishers
Edition:
Signed First Edition
Binding:
Hardcover with dust-jacket
Signature Authenticity:
Lifetime Guarantee of Signature Authenticity. Personally signed by Anne Rice directly into the book. The autograph in the book is not a facsimile, stamp, or auto-pen.
Author:
Anne Rice
Title:
The Witching Hour