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Published by Vintage Classics, 2011
ISBN 10: 009952872XISBN 13: 9780099528722
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241951518ISBN 13: 9780241951514
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.' Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm. There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judith's two sons; and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all. As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos. Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel. 'Very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times 'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, Guardian 'Delicious . Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop' Independent 'One of the finest parodies written in English.a wickedly brilliant skit' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930), and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Stella Gibbons died in 1989. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2014
ISBN 10: 2350872912ISBN 13: 9782350872919
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
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Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
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Published by POINTS, 2016
ISBN 10: 2757854747ISBN 13: 9782757854747
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Book
Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Published by Longmans Green and Co., 1946
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1946. First Published. 420 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed and sunned.
Rústica con camisa 460pgs. 21x14.
Published by Impedimenta, España, 2012
ISBN 10: 841557827XISBN 13: 9788415578277
Seller: KALAMO LIBROS, S.L., La Puebla de Montalbán, TOLED, Spain
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo. Un libro sabroso y adictivo, en el que Stella Gibbons se vale de toda su magia narrativa para mostrarnos el lado más cándido, divertido y perspicaz de la sociedad de su época. Stella Gibbons ya nos fascinó con las aventuras de La hija de Robert Poste y con esa moderna fábula londinense de la Cenicienta titulada Westwood. Ahora, en lo que se ha convertido en una de las grandes sensaciones del año en el Reino Unido, una Gibbons en estado de gracia nos ofrece Navidades en Cold Comfort Farm: dieciséis chispeantes y deliciosas historias repletas de personajes que viven rodeados de un glamour y una frivolidad que van repartiendo por fiestas, picnics y encuentros amorosos, y que culminan en el relato que da título al volumen, una precuela de su obra maestra, La hija de Robert Poste, donde se nos narra una sangrienta e hilarante cena de Navidad años antes de la primera visita de Flora Poste a Cold Comfort Farm, la granja de la Inglaterra profunda que daría título a la saga.
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Published by Impedimenta, 2012
ISBN 10: 841513021XISBN 13: 9788415130215
Seller: Pepe Store Books, Madrid, Spain
Book First Edition
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. Traducción de Laura Naranjo y Carmen Torres García.
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Published by Longmans, Green and Co, 1946
Seller: Legacy Books, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Has a sticker inside cover 'Property of the Seafarers' Education Service' - with a 'withdrawn' stamp over that. Also a stamp inside the end cover. Cover in very good condition. A few light marks. No real issues. Pages in good condition. Some creases near the spine on pages near the end. All pages present.
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Gibbons, Stella Westwood Impedimenta, 2012. Rústica con sobrecubierta. 14x21 cm. 460pp. Buen estado.
Published by Longman & Co, 1946
Seller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 422 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 30824. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.
Published by Longmans Green and Co., 1946
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 421 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are bright and clear with light foxing and tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Page corners are slightly dog-eared throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Unamed (illustrator). First edition. A First Edition copy of this biographical work by Charles Morgan titled 'Epitaph on George Moore'. First Edition. Collated complete. Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894 1958), was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1936, a promotion in 1945, and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949. From 1953 he was the president of International PEN. While Morgan enjoyed an immense reputation during his lifetime and was awarded the 1940 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, he was often criticised for excessive seriousness, and is now rather neglected; he once claimed that the "sense of humour by which we are ruled avoids emotion and vision and grandeur of spirit as a weevil avoids the sun. It has banished tragedy from our theatre, eloquence from our debates, glory from our years of peace, splendour from our wars." The character Gerard Challis in Stella Gibbons"s Westwood is thought to be a caricature of him. The subject of this book, George Augustus Moore (1852 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day. In a quarter cream cloth binding with marbled boards. Externally generally smart, with mild wear to the extremities, and minor bumping. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only some very light spotting. Very Good. book.
Published by Random House UK|Vintage Classics, 2016
ISBN 10: 1784870285ISBN 13: 9781784870287
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Book
Condition: New. Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unc.
Published by Longmans Green and Co
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. No dust jacket. Rebound ex-library copy with the usual stamps/stickers. A split at the top of the spine, which is taped. A tan to the page edges. Contents clear within and binding firm. A good condition book.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1946
Seller: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st impression, no owner's name or other inscription, no D/j, age toning to page ends and front and end papers, some shelf wear to extremities, crease to spine, hint of forward lean, some bruising to corner edges. This copy owned by me for over 45 years.
Published by Longman, Green and Co, London, 1946
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Minus. First Edition. DJ rubbed and chipped with sunned spine and tear to top edge of front. Front gutters cracked, top edge foxed, owner inscrip. to ffep, else pp clean and bright. Size: 12mo.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co Ltd, Peternoster Row, 1946
Seller: Buybyebooks, Honiton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. No Jacket. N/A (illustrator). First. HB 1st Ed. Blue cloth boards. Gilt titles front + spine. War economy standard production. 420 pages. 19 x 13cm. War time novel which contrasts lifes' disappointments against our over optimistic expectations, providing an entertaining story with much wry humour & deep humanity. Condition: Boards sunned on spine. Rubbed on spine, sides + corners. Cloth discoloured with age + handling. o/p has been cut out. Page edges collectively freckled with age. Clean. Little wear. Tight binding. Good colour. GC.
Seller: Libros Dickens, Quart de Poblet, VLC, Spain
Book
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Cuatro libros en buen estado, encuadernados en rústica con solapas. Los libros son los siguientes: LOS SOLTEROS + WESTWOOD + NOBLES Y REBELDES + FRAGMENTOS DE VIDA (UNA EDUCACIÓN NADA SENTIMENTAL).
Published by Longmans, Green, 1946
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth. Nice copy in little rubbed, browned dustwrapper with small chip at lower corner of front panel.
Published by London Longmans, Green and Co 1946, 1946
Seller: Jonathan Frost Rare Books Limited, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
First edition. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper: "Dear Mrs Crow with much love from Paddy. (Stella Gibbons). October 25 1946.". The recipient was Gibbons' close friend, Stella Crow, who she met at the North London Collegiate School for Girls, "Paddy" being Gibbon's nickname at the time. Crow was the dedicatee of the 1944 novel, 'The Bachelor'. The book is firmly bound in clean blue cloth lettered in silver, the extremities are slightly bumped and rubbed. The text block is slightly toned and foxed. The dust jacket is the original and not price clipped, it is a little toned, foxed and marked, with minor chips and short closed tears to the edges, the spine has faded. A novel that manages to quite comprehensively capture the sense of a nation in flux, all the chaos and uncertainty of war, the changing nature of class and culture, but does so by focussing on all the minute details and the everyday events, allowing casual, offhand references such as: "Phew! Doesn't it smell of bombs!" to set the scene, while letting the larger set pieces, such as being caught in an air-raid, happen offstage, confident that the reader's attention will be held without the need for excessive dramatic action. First editions are quite readily obtainable, but signed copies of Gibbons' books are uncommon, the few that do surface usually being, as in this instance, inscribed to close friends or family.