The Vampire Lestat
Price: $400.00
Hard Cover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Rice on the title page. Publisher's cream cloth-backed paper-covered boards, with front board and spine stamped in bronze, deckled fore edge; in the original white dust jacket designed by Sara Eisenman, with art from a 1546 Book of Hours illustrated by Francesco Monterchi and Giulio Clovio, lettered in black. Fine book, with a red remainder mark to top edge of text block; rear panel of unclipped dust jacket slightly soiled, else fine. Overall, a sharp copy. Published nine years after Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat is the second installation in Anne Rice's 13-book series, The Vampire Chronicles. The sequel takes Lestat de Lioncourt's point of view, who read Louis de Pointe du Lac's story (Interview with the Vampire) and decided to seek notoriety of his own, both by publishing an autobiography and by joining a rock band called "The Vampire Lestat." In the autobiography, Lestat reveals his own vampire origins and his past leading up to his companionship with Louis. In 1990 and 1991, The Vampire Lestat was adapted into a 12-part comic miniseries by Innovation Comics and was turned into a graphic novel later the same year by Ballantine. Lestat was also paired with the third novel in The Vampire Chronicles and loosely adapted into Michael Rymer's 2002 film The Queen of the Damned, but Rice and many fans of the series dismissed the film as a mutilation of her work. More recently, the story was turned into an acclaimed TV series (2022 -) starring Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid. Item #ARC009
