The Witching Hour
by Rice, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394587863
- ISBN 13
- 9780394587868
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1990). Hardcover. 0394587863 . No signatures. Some foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Third printing, in same month as the first printing (November 1990). 966 pages. Black papered boards with black cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Black emblem on front board. Page dimensions: 233 x 154mm. "The author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles [ . . .] gives us now a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches - a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
Synopsis
The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1) The line of the Mayfair Witches is a long one, rife with sin and curses, blessings and power, full of drama and all along guided by a strange spirit controlled by the matriarch of the clan. Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel (1991)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24958
- Title
- The Witching Hour
- Author
- Rice, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394587863
- ISBN 13
- 9780394587868
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1990)
- Keywords
- 0394587863
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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