GIBBONS, Stella.

£2,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm and other stories. First edition, first impression. The first publication in book form of sixteen short stories which originally appeared in magazines. The stories include "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm": the author's first return to the Sussex scene of "something nasty in the woodshed" since Cold Comfort Farm was originally published in 1932.On publication the Times Literary Supplement reviewed the volume as "never less than entertaining". The dust jacket design takes the cow design from Cold Comfort Farm and adds a seasonal tree.

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