Bassett by Gibbons Stella (26 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.

Condition: Fair. 1944. Reprint. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages have a distinct smokey odour. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine and board edges.

Condition: Good. 1944. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. 1944. Reprint (War economy standard). 308 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. Tilt to spine. Clean pages. No foxing but some tanning to endpapers. Pages all good.Wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Please see photos. Further images available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London: Longmans Green, (1946). New Impresson 1946. 308 p. Hardback, no dust jacket. Condition: Very Good - corners, spine rounded; spine and part of back cover faded; edges and endpapers foxed and yellowed; owner's inscription; back hinge cracked. Else a clean and neat copy.

First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original red buckram, spine lettered in black; [10],308pp. Ex-private lending library, with contemporary rubberstamps to front free endpaper and pastedown, no exterior markings; some shelf-wear, spine a hint faded and rather cocked, else Good and sound. Gibbons's second novel, surprisingly uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. Red textured cloth with black lettering. Light edgewear. Spine is darkened and scuffed. Text is clean and bright, no marks. By the author of Cold Comfort Farm. A story of two women who, to see themselves through hard times, arrange to together run a boarding house in rural England.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. Jacket by Joan Atkinson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. This was Stella Gibbons second novel. Cold Comfort Farm was her first. This book is in excellent condition. Take a look at the photos of the red covers.They appear yo be perfectly clean. The black lettering on the spine is very bright. There's just the tiniest amount of wear at the spine ends, a bit of color fade, no tears. All six edges are in solid shape. The bottom rear edge has a wee bit of white in a couple of small places. No rubbing on the edges. The top front corner and rear bottom corner each have a speck of rub-through. The front bottom corner has a very small spot of rub-through. The top page edge may have had a dye that lightened with time. I'm not sure. But there are no stains or spots on the top page edge and none on the bottom page edge. The middle page edge is very clean. It has two tiny brown specks. As small as they are, a speck of this brown can be just seen peeking over the edge of the page that says 'Part I' and the following page which is 'Chapter I', obviously quite minor. The second tiny brown spot can also be seen just peeking over the edge of pages 49-50, 51-52, and 53-54. Tiny, tiny. I'm going to stay in the weeds here because this is an expensive book. There is a very slight nick on the middle page edge, not visible when the book is closed, but scrolling through the early pages one can make it out. The impact is extremely minor. There's a slight and tiny impression. There are no tears there or on any of the pages in the book. This nick of an impression is something I would feel comfortable not referencing on a less expensive book because it doesn't really rise to the level of a flaw. Getting back to the covers for a moment, there is a light vertical crease on the spine, the kind that's created when the cloth puffs out a little bit at the center. So there is a slight space (1/16th of an inch) between the text block and the cloth at the top edge of the spine. The cloth at the bottom edge of the spine is very tight with the text block. The spine has a very slight forward lean, slight enough that again I would not typically reference it, a reference I will often make when it is relevant. So there is this very slight lean, but the book is solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout. The covers are also nicely tight. There are no cracks or spaces between the covers and the end papers or between the covers and any pages in the book. There are no cracks or spaces between any of the facing pages in the book. The pages are very clean. I found only one side of one page with some amber colored soiling, not a lot but a bit of it is over some of the lettering. The facing page has what appears to be some unrelated unevenness (a couple of tiny ridges) coming up from its bottom edge, fairly minor. It'books s on both sides but not on any of the preceding or following pages. There's also one page that has two dark specks just to the right of the juncture with the facing page. There's not much by way of creasing, not seeing any turn-down corner creases. There's some very vague bottom corner not-quite-creases on some latter pages, really not much of anything. There are no markings in the book. No attachments. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. I've rated it Very Good Minus, taking into account age. It's quite clean. The spine is faded. You can see the losses. The flaps are clean, a little spotting at the rear top edge, light wear at the front top edge. The four flaps have tucking-in clips, the price is present and unaffected. Feel free to contact me with questions.

Sturdily bound in finely woven red cloth lettered in black on the spine. Very clean and tight throughout; virtually unread. With a touch of dust foxing to the fore-edges. Light rubbing to the top of the spine ends and to the corners. In a good plus dust jacket missing 1" across the top of the spine leaving only "BA." in the title; fingernail-sized piece missing at the bottom of the spine corner. General wear and a large closed circular tear to the left-front corner of the front panel. With light foxing to the photo of Stella Gibbons on the rear panel. With the original price of $2.00 at the top of the front panel; and a write-up for Cold Comfort Farm filling thr rear inside flap. Summary: "The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire. It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker - divided by class and age, they are determined to dislike each other. Through their tale and the interwoven tribulations of two young lovers, Gibbons' sparkling novel explores the heart of friendship and what unites us." An uncommon first edition in a dust jacket with major condition issues. Stella Dorothea Gibbons(1902 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with herfirst novel,Cold Comfort Farm(1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works which included a sequel toCold Comfort Farm achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century.The daughter of a London doctor, Gibbons had a turbulent and often unhappy childhood. After an indifferent school career she trained as a journalist, and worked as a reporter and features writer, mainly for theEvening StandardandThe Lady. Her first book, published in 1930, was a collection of poems which was well received, and through her life she considered herself primarily a poet rather than a novelist. AfterCold Comfort Farm, a satire on the genre of rural-themed "loam and lovechild" novels popular in the late 1920s, most of Gibbons's novels were based within the middle-class suburban world with which she was familiar.Gibbons became a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Literaturein 1950. Her style has been praised by critics for its charm, barbed humour and descriptive skill, and has led to comparison withJane Austen. The success ofCold Comfort Farmdominated her career, and she grew to resent her identification with the book to the exclusion of the rest of her output. Widely regarded as a one-work novelist, she and her works have not been accepted into the canon of English literature partly, other writers have suggested, because of her detachment from the literary world and her tendency to mock it. (Wikipedia) First Edition with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page. And "Printed in the United States of America" at the bottom of the copyright page.