Conference At Cold Comfort Farm
1949réf. 3574London: Longmans Green and Co 1949. Cloth. Good. FIRST EDITION PETER WILDEBLOOD'S COPY. 8vo. Original sage green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Wear and pushing to extremities cloth mottled. Edges spotted. Ownership inscription of Peter Wildeblood in pencil to ffep faint stains to p.1 and facing verso else tight and clean pleasingly so given the poor paper stock. In Una May's original illustrated dust jacket: well-handled with numerous losses and tears rear panel only holding by 5cm at head of bottom joint cup stain to front panel. Good/fair A well-handled queer association copy of the first edition of Stella Gibbons' 1949 second novel set at Cold Comfort Farm featuring the ownership inscription of Peter Wildeblood: just two years later in 1951 the journalist and playwright's adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm co-written with Kenneth Tynan who later stood bail for Wildeblood opened at the Haymarket Theatre London. Three years after this staging in January 1954 Wildeblood was arrested for 'gross indecency' under the 1885 Labouchère Amendment alongside Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers. During the trial Wildeblood like Wilde before him though using different language acknowledged his 'inversion'. Unlike his queer forebear and near namesake however Wildeblood not only remained in Britain after his prison term but also campaigned for legal change publishing his civil rights-agitating-cum-prison memoir Against the Law 1955 and providing evidence to the Wolfenden committee. Books from Wildeblood's library are rare indeed we've been unable to trace what happened to it: do please get in touch if you can tell us more. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
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