VITTORIO THE VAMPIRE by Anne Rice Hardcover First Trade Edition 1999 VC #15

With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold. Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. Black quarter cloth with silver foil lettering on spine over black pin-stripped boards. 8" x 5" Illustrated with a color frontispiece painting titled: Farewell of Saint John the Baptist from His Parents by Fra Filippo Lippi. Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with details of Renaissance Florentine portraits front and rear. Book is in Very Fine unread condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Binding is tight. No writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not clipped. This collectible, first edition is protected with a mylar archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy Vampire Chronicles #15 Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Gothic