Cold Comfort Farm by Gibbons Stella, First Edition (39 results)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 167 pages. In Good condition with Good minus condition dust jacket. Black and sky blue spine with white and black lettering. Dust jacket in mylar wrapping, severe wear to head and tail edges, large tears along fore edges, small stain on rear cover, tears on head and tail of spine, and moderate aging. Boards have moderate wear on head and tail edges and spine has moderate wear on head and tail. Textblock has gutter splitting from front end-page to page 56, pages 57-112, and pages 125 to rear end-page, a small stain on fore edge from front end-paper to page 44, and moderate aging. Shelved ND-E. 1378503. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. with water-colour drawings by Quentin Blake (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, decorated, green cloth boards. A vary small fraying tear on front hinge. In a cream slipcase in good condition.

First Edition, First Printing for The Folio Society. Water-colour drawings by Quentin Blake. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (owner name) with fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Charles Saxon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition 1964. This book is in very good condition - ffep removed; light wear to boards. The dust jacket is in good condition - not price-clipped; edge wear with chips; small tears at corners; half inch tear on spine. Photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quentin Blake (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Light green cloth with line illustration and gilt titles. No inscriptions. Colour illustrations by Quentin Blake. Housed in a pale tan slip case, with some sunning. Otherwise sound. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Longmans, Green and Co 1949. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Chipped unclipped Dust Jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 167 pp,m crown green cloth case, good clean text & well bound but no dj, no foxing, book is a follow up of Cold Comfort Farm and is a contuinued take off of contemporary interwar rural socirty gently mocked. Size: Crown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. DJ shows loss to head off spine and closed tears, otherwise very good.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. 1949 First Edition. Cloth slightly marked otherwise near very good indeed in chipped and browned, fair dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good/fair. First Ed,. 166 pages. DJ has some small edge tears, small edge piece missing from bottom front and sunning on back. Not price-clipped. Small inscription on EP. Please contact bookseller to check availability etc. Size: 19 x 13cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Light rubbing to edges of hardboards; Very clean, no markings, solid and straight -- a nice copy; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 255 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback. 19x13cm. 167 pages. Maybe EX-LIBRARY. Front end paper has been removed. Clean & tight. Jacket has edge wear with tears & loss. Jacket rear has some sellotape. Front flap is not price-clipped: 7/6 net. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref TK2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. British edition, new impression, 1950. Fifth or later printing. With original unclipped jacket (6/-). Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, few tears, patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, (quite) severe foxing, numerous marks, patchy browning (including to spine), pushing/bumping to corners, browning/foxing/few small marks to reverse (white side), creasing/rubbing/browning to front/back inner flaps, is a little fragile and is in only fair condition. Boards are very good (having been well protected by the jacket) with a little browning to spine, minor pushing/bumping to corners and a little pushing/rubbing/fading to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Small mark inside back board. Previous owner's name in pencil inside front board. Odd small mark/spots of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Small (approx. 8mms) tear to top corner of one page. Small (approx. 5mms) tear to edge of one page. Pages bit tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Longmans, 1949 - first edition - hardback with dust jacket - boards have slight surface and edge wear, slight abrasion to upper back leading corner and spine base slightly bruised - neat name inscription to front endpaper - DJ appears very clean but has a small open tear to the spine-head and upper edge of fear panel, two chips to the spine -base, 1 inch closed tear to lower edge of front panel, and a few small chips to edges - VG/VG.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1949. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Sequel to Cold Comfort Farm where Flora Poste, now Mrs Charles Fairford, once again represents the forces of sanity and order in a new battle. A classic satire. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Boards a little browned and scuffed. Text block browned. Contents clean. Price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper is browned and has a closed tear across top of spine (no loss), minor chipping to base of spine. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition/First printing published by Longmans Green, London 1949. No marks or inscriptions. Clean and bright pages. Dustjacket has chipping to edges with small loss to top and bottom of spine. Few small closed tears. Browned with age. Protected in archive cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This First Edition and first printing hardback was published by Longmans in London in 1949. Both book and dust-jacket are in strong 'Very Good' condition - please refer to our photographs. The pages of text have survived over 70 years extraordinarily well and are certainly in 'Near Fine'. The book's cloth bound covers show fading of their dyed colour not in a uniform way but in a modern art blotchy approach. It's a mystery how. The cloth on the spine however is unaffected and the titles are in still bright silver gilt. The dust-jacket is an old fashioned thin plastic protective sleeve but it has worked well as the paper used for the jacket in 1949 Austerity England is very thin. The book has 166 numbered pages but no illustrations. The size of this paperback-sized book in inches is 7.5 x 5.0 and it weighs 0.23 kg. For lovers of Cold Comfort Farm . Flora Poste is back from page 1! As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Panther. Granada Publishing. UK. 1973. Paperback. First edition. Stella Gibbons' 'Cold Comfort Farm' first published in 1932, remains her best known work. This paperback is in very good condition and looks unread with an unbroken spine. The covers are clean and bright with wonderful cover art. There is light creasing to the front bottom tip. The spine is bright, unfaded and complete. There is the lightest rub to one or two spots, hardly worth mentioning. The contents are a little age-toned otherwise clean and bright and unmarked. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, very good condition, small octavo, blue cloth, in very good+ dust wrapperby Una May, in protective cover, light foxing to edges, internally clean and bright, 6 unpaginated plus 167 pages. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Description: 1/4 UK First edition thus, fourth printing With illustrations by Quentin Blake Condition: Fine condition. Decorative green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Size: 235 x 160mm.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. An excellent first edition copy of Stella Gibbons' sequel to 'Cold Comfort Farm'. A modern satire, charming and humorous. The first edition of this work, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. A modern satire by Stella Gibbons, sequel toCold Comfort Farm. Flora Poste represents sanity and order in a new battle against the uncouth and underfed delegates to the Conference of the International Thinkers Group. A brilliant novel full of charm and humour.Stella Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She has often been compared to Jane Austen. Her most notable works are her first novel,Cold Comfort Farmwhich has been reprinted many times, and its sequel, this volume. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear and only slight bumping to head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is price clipped and sound, with slight chipping and minor puncture marks. Small loss to the tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Saxon, Charles (illustrator). First American Edition. NY: Dial Press, 1964. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 255 pp. Illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon. Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British romantic comedy film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 book of the same name, the film stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, and Rufus Sewell. Originally broadcast on 1 January 1995 on the BBC, it was Schlesinger's final film shot in his home country England, and was picked up for theatrical release in North America through Gramercy Pictures, where it was a small success. Previous owner name to front endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket has wear at extremities, an old fold to spine. Reinforced internally with archival tape. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1949 Longmans Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design as shown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 299 pages. Clean, tight copy. Blue cloth, no jacket, front board has slight darkening to right edge and a few inconspicuous smudges, but otherwise very nice. Stated "first published 1940" on copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New impression published by Longmans Green, London 1942. VG clean and tight condition. Very occasional mild spotting. Clean Orange cloth covers with sunning to spine area.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth. Nice copy in like d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. 1st Edition / 2nd Impression. DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth with white titles to front and spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Poor: Heavy wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned and heavily rubbed spine cloth with torn and frayed spine ends and tears to spine edges. Cracked rear lower corner section of rear board. Tightly bound with lightly toned intact endpapers. Lightly toned unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 307. Size: 8vo 19cm by 13cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, 1940 - lacks dust jacket - some light surface wear and markings to blue cloth covered boards - white titles clear - light tanning and a touch of foxing to the edge of the page block - unmarked - good condition - photo available on request.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1942. Correct 1st state with white lettering and thicker spine. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 7853###010244.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition (published in the UK in 1932). Illustrated by Charles Saxon. Boards a bit overall toned, very good or better in very good dust jacket with light toning on the spine and a small smudge on the front panel. A spectacularly sly and amusing novel about a suddenly orphaned gentlewoman forced to live among her hopelessly rustic extended family in the country. The novel is the genesis for the oft-repeated phrase: "There's something nasty in the woodshed." Basis for an underrated and delicious 1995 film directed by John Schlesinger, and featuring Kate Beckinsale in one of her earliest starring roles, with splendid support from Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, and several others. A surprisingly uncommon edition.