Dickie James Editor (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This edition published 1973 by Pan Books Ltd. Slight edge and shelf wear. Spine is unbroken, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bumped at the head of the spine. Jacket stained at the bottom edge of the back cover; light edgewear; clipped front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Not price clipped, a fine copy with jacket protected in mylar. A collection of classic vampire tales.

Hard Cover. Fine book in near fine dust jacket with trace of edge wear and two tiny spots on front panel with colour loss due to sticker removal. Vampire classics selected and with a 15 page introduction by Dickie.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pan. inscription to endpaper. binding tight. corners creased. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects thirteen vampire tales by Bram Stoker, F. Marion Crawford, Clark Ashton Smith, and others, as well as a poem, "The Undead" by Richard Wilbur. Reginald 04332, Tiny water strike to top edge of text block, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket priced £2.10 on the front flap with mild wear along top and bottom edges, mainly spine ends. (#173837).

viii, 187 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed, strong creasing to front flap's top corner. Black cloth. A still fairly crisp fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Papers originally delivered at a colloquium held from February 27-28, 1993 at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. With Preface, Introduction by editor Henry Maguire, and Index. Features the following essays: "The Fathers of the Church and the Evil Eye" by Matthew W. Dickie; "The Archaeological Context of Magic in the Early Byzantine Period" by James Russell; "Magic and the Christian Image" by Henry Maguire; "Holy and Unholy Miracle Workers" by Alexander Kazhdan; "Reactions of Two Byzantine Intellectuals to the Theory and Practice of Magic: Michael Psellos and Michael Italikos" by John Duffy; "Balsamon on Magic: From Roman Secular Law to Byzantine Canon Law" by Marie Theres Fogen; "A Contribution to the Study of Palaeologan Magic" by Richard P.H. Greenfield; and "Magic in Slavia Orthodoxa: The Written Tradition" by Robert Mathiesen. ISBN 0884022307.