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Introduction by The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin. Webb [1881-1927] was a romance novelist and poet who based her work on her beloved Shropshire and the people she knew there, with wi t and pathos. Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is reckoned to be a satire of Webb's novels, which tend toward gloomy fatalism. Green cloth cover is faded in some areas, and dust jacket is in bad shape. This is the 14th printing of the first edition. Jonathan Cape. London. Hb, Dj. 1936. USED. $3.00 Show more