Anne Rice Pandora 1st Edition 1998 Knopf HC w/ Dust Jacket

A companion novel in Anne Rice's celebrated Vampire Chronicles universe, introducing the ancient vampire Pandora, one of the oldest immortals in Rice's mythology. The narrative is framed as a memoir written at the request of David Talbot of the Talamasca and recounts Pandora's life across two millennia - from Imperial Rome and the world of Augustus through eighteenth-century Europe and into modern Paris and New Orleans. Richly historical in tone, the novel expands Rice's elaborate vampire cosmology while offering a deeply personal portrait of one of the saga's most enigmatic characters. The volume is bound in black cloth with gilt spine lettering and issued in the publisher's illustrated dust jacket featuring a decorative Renaissance-style manuscript motif. The copyright page states 'First Trade Edition,' published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998, confirming the standard first U.S. trade printing of the novel (distinct from the separate signed limited edition issued by B. E. Trice Publishing of New Orleans). The book includes a frontispiece reproduction of an early manuscript illumination depicting the scribe Ezra. Condition: Book Near Fine - clean black cloth boards, bright gilt lettering, tight binding, and crisp unmarked pages. Dust jacket Very Good, not price-clipped, with light surface rubbing and mild edge wear, including a small crease and minor wear at the upper edge. Overall an attractive copy with a well-preserved interior. Anne Rice (1941-2021) was one of the most influential writers of modern gothic fiction. Her Vampire Chronicles, beginning with Interview with the Vampire (1976), reshaped the literary vampire into a complex philosophical and psychological figure and became an international bestseller series adapted for film and television.…