Vittorio the Vampire - 1st US edition

by Anne Rice - signed   

The second of the "New Tales of the Vampires, this is the story of Vittorio, a vampire during the Italian Renaissance. He is educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici and trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle. Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor, the simultaneously sacred and profane world of beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy. His seduction into vampirism is a tragic tale of doomed love and lost innocence. Excellent Rice.

Book is black with silver stamped spine, in fine condition. The jacket is like-wise fine and unflawed.