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The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature
by Heldreth, Leonard G. & Pharr, Mary (Editors)
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0879728035
- ISBN 13
- 9780879728038
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About This Item
Ohio, USA; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999, 1999. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix, [1], 275. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket. A clean bright copy, with no annotation or highlighting. Near fine. Set of humanistic essays by various authors, analysing the evolution of the vampire in literature from the Romantic era to the new millennium. Including essays titled 'Vampiric Appetite in I Am Legend', 'Salem's Lot and The Hunger', 'Anne Rice's Protestant Vampires' and 'Dracula Meets the New Woman'.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11264
- Title
- The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature
- Author
- Heldreth, Leonard G. & Pharr, Mary (Editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0879728035
- ISBN 13
- 9780879728038
- Publisher
- Ohio, USA; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Myths & Legends
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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