Interview With the Vampire

(Gothic Horror) Rice, Anne. Interview With the Vampire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY; INSCRIBED BY ANNE RICE ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE: "For George Locke, Anne Rice;" a Letter of Authenticity from PSA/DNA (Cert. No. AQ07605) certifying the authenticity of Rice's signature will accompany this lot. 8vo - 8-3/16" x 5-1/4". Light gray stiff paper wrappers with titles printed in black to front wrapper with darkening to the spine and minor toning to the extremities of both the front and back wrappers but no real signs of handling or wear for what is a lovely copy of the book. 355 pp.Interview With the Vampire, a gothic horror story of vampires and New Orleans's French Quarter, was Anne Rice's first published work. Here we have it in its prepublication, uncorrected proof form. "Interview ..." would be the first of Rice's Vampire Chronicle novels that she would continue writing for the next 40 plus years. During the period from 1976 to 2018 Rice published 13 novels in her Vampire Chronicle series: Interview With the Vampire (1976); The Vampire Lestat (1985); The Queen of the Damned (1988); The Tale of the Body Thief (1992); Memnoch the Devil (1995); The Vampire Armand (1998); Merrick (2000); Blood and Gold (2001); Blackwood Farm (2002); Blood Canticle (2003); Prince Lestat (2014); Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016) and Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018). The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. RARE; ESPECIALLY SO SIGNED BY ANNE RICE. # 001274