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First edition, first impression. Cold Comfort Farm was praised as the work of "a wicked and witty pen" by the Times Literary Supplement. An instant success, is has never been out of print. There have been numerous radio, television, and stage adaptations of the novel. A 1968 BBC television serial starred Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, and Brian Blessed. In 1995 a new adaptation for television was also shown in cinemas and featured Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins, and Stephen Fry. A stage play, adapted by Paul Doust, dates from the early 1990s, and a musical version by Alaric T. Barrie was first produced in 1996. Octavo (182 x 120 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, blue and green patterned endpapers, gilt edges. Minimal spotting to prelims otherwise a fine copy.

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.