Dead Until Dark (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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HARRIS, Charlaine. Dead Until Dark. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2010. Octavo. Full red leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gold stamped design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 312 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Ace Books, 2001. Charlaine Harris (b. 1951) was born in Tunica, Mississippi, and has spent her career writing mystery and fantasy fiction set in the American South. She published two standalone mysteries and several mystery series before beginning the Southern Vampire Mysteries — also known as the Sookie Stackhouse novels — with Dead Until Dark in 2001. The series ran to thirteen novels, was translated into many languages, and has sold more than forty million copies worldwide. Harris has also written the Midnight, Texas series and several other mystery sequences, but it is Sookie Stackhouse for which she is best known, and it is Dead Until Dark that established everything the series became. The novel is set in Bon Temps, Louisiana, a small town in which vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" — having been made legally possible by the development of a synthetic blood substitute called Tru Blood, vampires have declared themselves to the world and s

• Binding: Hardcover

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