A dark and rickety farm house, a loopy bull, and a comically off-kilter sense of looming silliness greet you in the naive folk-style art of this book cover for Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, in bright cheery buttercup yellow against a more sombre forget-me-not blue. Published in 1932 but set about 15 or 20 years in its own future, Cold Comfort Farm is historic science-fiction, as well as being, as a quote from the Sunday Times at the bottom of this cover claims, "Probably the funniest book ever written."
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