Rice, Anne

The Witching Hour - 1st Edition/1st Printing

      Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, USA 1990 - The first of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, First Edition, in Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author Anne Rice on book plate on half title page; It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman and a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery, is aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches. Rowan finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. Michael Curry, born in New Orleans but orphaned in childhood by a fire on Christmas Eve, has pulled himself up from poverty. Now, during his brief interval with death, he has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. 8vo [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]