Description: Good. Pages are clear and bright, cover colorful, shelf and edge wear, aging, rubbing and crackling on cover, blue stain on back cover, creased spine, corners bumped, two black marker marks on bottom page edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Books
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. Dustjacket is tattered at edges and spine is sunfaded. Pages 306-307 are yellowed from previous owner's old newspaper insert.; 9.5" tall; 543 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Books, New Hyde Park, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Illustrated. Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book. Black and white lettering on the burnt orange and green dust jacket spine and cover. The original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim Amulets and Talismans and Magical Figures, with chapters on Evil Eye, the origin of the amulet, the Pentagon, the Swastika, the Cross (Pagan and Christian), the Properties of Stones, Rings, ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: University Books, 1961
Date Published: 1961
Description: Dust Jacket Included. First edition thus, hardcover, a clean, tight VG+ copy in like dustjacket which has a slight fade to the spine. read more
Edition: First edition. First U.S. edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Books, New Hyde Park, N.Y.
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Cover missing; boards are a bit torn; has torn-out library plate inside cover; oddly, the first 20 pp. are bound upside-down. 543 p. Includes illustrations. E. A. Wallis Budge was a famous orientalist, occultist, and scholar of antiquities. This is a comprehensive study of amulets and talismans to ward off evil, fecundate crops and wombs, &c. Richly illustrated both with drawings and photos. read more
Edition: 1st. Thus
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: University Books
Date Published: 1961
Description: VG+/VG+ The original text with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic & Muslim Amulets and Talismans, magical figures....22 plates and 300 illustrations in the text. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: University Books
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. This is a hard cover book with tan cloth covered boards. Brown titling on spine. The dust jacket is enclosed in a protective clear mylar cover. Dust jacket is unclipped, but lightly edgeworn. "the original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic, and Muslim amulets and talismans, with chapters on The Evil eye, The Origin of the Amulet, The Pentagon, The Swastika, The Cross (Pagan ... read more
Edition: First American edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Books, New Hyde Park, NY
Date Published: 1961
Description: Hardcover. Large 8vo, xl + 542pp + 4pp of adverts. Original beige quarter cloth with marbled paper boards, original text with translations and descriptions, 22 plates and 300 illustrations in text, colored top edge, index. Light rubbing to edges, faint brown spot to fore-edge, residue from price sticker removal on ffep, otherwise a bright, unmarked VG+ copy VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket a bit rubbed at edges, not price clipped). read more
"It begins with an interesting (albeit familiar) discussion of magic in ancient Semitic religions, with a surprisingly accepting view of the use of magic in Budge's contemporary context. He has nothing but disgust for the female mediums at work in post-war London. Those of us who have read Maisie Dobbs know all about this, and can't help but nod in agreement. The individual chapters are great: drawings or photos, with in-depth commentary on hundreds of individual amulets, including translations of the inscriptions. Ah, for the days of the gentleman scholar!"
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