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John Metcalfe. The Feasting Dead. Arkham House, UK, 1954.
Price: US$96.15 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1954. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Light edge rubbing and creasing to rear edge. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref 15320 ###019070
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
John Metcalfe. The Feasting Dead. Arkham House, 1954.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Arkham House: 1954. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited to 1200 copies (actually 1242 copies printed). The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is toning to the endpapers. The dust jacket is in very good shape with a little wear at the corners. Mylar wrapped DJ. Please ask if you'd like more pictures.
Seller: Aunt Barb's Books, Westerville, OH, U.S.A.
(Arkham House) Metcalfe, John. The Feasting Dead. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1954.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bleiler 1171; Derleth "Thirty Years of Arkham House" 48 Orginal black cloth, some rubbing, light soiling, some light spotting and browning, mostly of endpapers, ownership signature on endpaper
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
John Metcalfe. The Feasting Dead. Arkham House, 1954.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Horror novel. 1200 copies printed. VG; bottom tips have small bumps; in jacket; tiny bit of color loss on lower right tip and at heel of spine.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. The Feasting Dead. Arkham House, 1954.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, one of 1200 copies bound in black cloth with gold spine lettering. A Near Fine copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Former owner's name inked in small letters on the front endpaper's left edge. Some moderate tanning to front spine seam between the endpaper and front fly leaf. Book is otherwise fine. The dust jacket has frays to its corners and tiny chips to its spine tips. Light dust soiling to the rear panel.
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. The Feasting Dead. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1954.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo. volume, pictorial dust jacket. Condition: slight soiling to rear panel of DJ; slight toning to endpapers; else near fine in near fine DJ. 123 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1954.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. 1954. 1st edition, of 1200x. 123pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition. Internally, slight age-toning to endpages, otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures. The Frank Utpatel dust jacket is in very good clean condition. It is not price clipped.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 1242 copies printed. THE FEASTING DEAD is a novelette concerning vampirism. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times . Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. Inked name to front paste down, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, age toning to the rear panel. (24865)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. The Feasting Dead. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. Faintly rubbed and gently bumped edges. Former owner's large and attractive stamp on front free endsheet Very good with light rubbing. In dust jacket protector, which has two small red stickers on back panel Black cloth with gilt lettering
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1242 copies printed. A short novel of psychic vampirism. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corner tips and some dust soiling to rear panel. (#95850)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, 1954.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1242 copies printed. Tiny address label on endpaper. Slight wear and corner bumping o/w sharp.
Seller: Tim's Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Feasting Dead by John Metcalfe (First Edition) A firm square copy, mild offset tanning to endpapers. A bright dust jacket with very minor edge wear. Original $2.50 price intact. Clear protective cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. The Feasting Dead. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1954.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: F/F dj - Now in archival Brodart. Slight rubbing to spine ends, light toning to back panel. Novel of psychic vampirism.
Seller: Dark Hollow Books®, Member NHABA, IOBA, Wolfeboro Falls, NH, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 1242 copies printed. THE FEASTING DEAD is a novelette concerning vampirism. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times . Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some mild rubbing to the corner tips and spine ends. (22853)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. 1242 copies printed. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times . Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. THE FEASTING DEAD is a short novel of psychic vampirism. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169307) (29964)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1242 copies printed. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times . Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. THE FEASTING DEAD is a short novel of psychic vampirism. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169307)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Metcalfe, John. THE FEASTING DEAD. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1954.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Metcalfe to A. Langley Searles on the front free endpaper: "To / A. Langley Searles / Sincerely / John Metcalfe." 1242 copies printed. A short novel of psychic vampirism. "British writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales, many of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times . Metcalfe's stories, typically, rely upon fragments of letters, snatches of half-remembered conversation, liquor-dulled reminiscences, murky dreams, fleetingly described photographs, and veiled references to messages never actually quoted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 290. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-278. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-236. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-178. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1171. Touch of tanning to endpapers, mostly along gutter margins, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#132261)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.