First Edition: 121 pages, woodcut printer's device on the title page, original black cloth titled gilt along the spine, light staining on the endpapers from moisture in the boards at the time of printing, a very good copy in the dust jacket which is lightly worn at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners - the jacket is printed on stock paper and spirit varnished, designed Frank Utpatel, with the price $2.50 at the top of the front flap.
The colophon on the final unnumbered page reads, 'Twelve hundred copies of this book have been printed by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, from Linotype Baskerville on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex.'
The bibliography records 1242 copies as the total edition the extra copies being explained as printer's overruns.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feasting_Dead), The Feasting Dead is a horror novel by British writer John Metcalfe. It was published by Arkham House in 1954 in an edition of 1,242 copies. It was the only book published by Arkham House in 1954. Plot summary; The story is about a young English boy, Denis, who, while in France falls under the influence of a vampiric being, from the folklore of Auvergne and the misfortune that befalls him.
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (193 mm x 138 mm)
