164. Gibbons (Stella) Cold Comfort Farm, first edition, abrasions and tape-marks to endpapers and pastedowns, original cloth, a little mottled and faded, very good overall, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine a little chipped at head, lower panel with light browning and pen mark, tape mark to upper flap, still excellent overall, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1932.
est. £1500 – £2000
An excellent copy of Stella Gibbons breakthrough first novel. A brilliant satire of the sort of overwrought melodramas fashionable at the time.