Pandora - first US edition

by Anne Rice

The first of the "New Tales of the Vampires, this is the story of Pandora, a young woman who was born during the first century BC. She recounts her tale, taking the reader through the ages from Imperial Rome to 18th-century Paris and New Orleans. In the Rome of Caesar Augustus, Pandora meets and falls in love with a young man named Marius, who ultimately bestows "the Dark Gift" on Pandora while they are living in the exotic port of Antioch. 

Book is black with black spine stamped in gold. Fine condition, read once with care. Jacket is equally fine. Jacket image is a detail of a 16th-century Italian manuscript.