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Cold Comfort Farm
by Gibbons, Stella
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
New York : The Dial Press, 1964. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Octavo (standard book size). Charles Saxon. Several black and white illustrations throughout. A collectible copy of a really funny novel that also boastsenduring literary values. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 254 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked. Endpapers slightly browned, text clean. Dust jacket has wear on edges, some small closed tears, some faint marks and the spine is faded. . Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Illustrator: Charles Saxon . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Humourous Fiction ; Main Picture: Front cover. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51700. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers slightly browned, text clean Edges very slightly spotted or marked
Synopsis
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Gibbons was working for the Evening Standard in 1928 when they decided to serialise Webb's first novel, The Golden Arrow, and had the job of summarising the plot of earlier installments. Other novelists in the tradition parodied by Cold Comfort Farm are D. H.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51700
- Title
- Cold Comfort Farm
- Author
- Gibbons, Stella
- Illustrator
- Charles Saxon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Embossed Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 254
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Humourous Fiction BZDB397 Stella Gibbons, satire Fiction; Humourous Fiction ; Cold Comfort Farm
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
Terms of Sale
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Biblio member since 2020
Yungaburra, Queensland
About Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Books sourced from all over the world adorn our shelves. We carry a general range of books, some 18,000, including fiction and non-fiction in all genres. We stock collectibles, rare and antiquarian and many out-of-print books. Lonely Planet described Spencer & Murphy Booksellers as "the best bookshop in the North" and we are known as a treasure trove of books and often as Aladdin's Cave of Books.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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