The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat — Anne Rice | 1985 First Edition, First Printing

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in original unclipped dust jacket.

A collectible first edition of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat, the second novel in her celebrated Vampire Chronicles and the book that brought Lestat fully to the forefront of Rice’s dark, imaginative world.

Published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985, this copy is a true first edition, first printing, with “FIRST EDITION” stated on the copyright page. It retains its original first-issue dust jacket with the $17.95 publisher’s price intact on the front flap and “10/85” printed at the foot of the rear flap.

Following Interview with the Vampire, Rice shifts the story to Lestat himself, tracing his life from eighteenth-century France through his transformation into a vampire and ultimately into the charismatic figure who became the defining character of the series. The Vampire Lestat remains one of the cornerstone novels of modern vampire and gothic fiction.