Introduction by Erika Duncan. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder. Includes the original introduction by The Rt. 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 wit and pathos. Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is reckoned to be a satire of Webb's novels, which tend toward gloomy fatalism. But there is hope in the resolution of Precious Bane, showing a person suffering with disfigurement can be loved, maybe better than those around her. Some wrinkles to the cover, otherwise very good. University of Notre Dame Press. Paperback, 1980 USED. $9.00