Books

First edition, first impression. The first publication in book form of sixteen short stories which originally appeared in magazines. The stories include "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm": the author's first return to the Sussex scene of "something nasty in the woodshed" since Cold Comfort Farm was originally published in 1932. On publication the Times Literary Supplement reviewed the volume as "never less than entertaining". The dust jacket design takes the cow design from Cold Comfort Farm and adds a seasonal tree. Octavo. Original blue cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in white. With dust jacket. Minor foxing and browning to endpapers; a fine copy. Spine of dust jacket sunned, extremities slightly worn with loss to head of front cover and minor repairs to reverse, some consistent browning; an attractive and very good example of an unclipped jacket.

Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. The book parodies the romanticized, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popularized by authors such as Mary Webb.