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The Borrowers
by Norton, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Fair
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom,: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1952. Book. Illus. by Diana Stanley. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition , First Printing. pp. 159. frontispiece and illustrations by Diana Stanley A true first printing "First Published 1952" to the copyright page and no statement of reprint in a poor to fair first state jacket which is price clipped, wear, loss and chipping to the extremities of the jacket, reinforced to the rear. Tight binding, small mark to title page else internally clean unmarked pages. .
Synopsis
The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who "borrow" things from normal humans and keep their existence unknown. The central characters are the Clock family: father Pod, mother Homily, and their spirited thirteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty. Published in 1952, it won the Carnegie Medal for that year and was selected in 2007 by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's literature as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016389
- Title
- The Borrowers
- Author
- Norton, Mary
- Illustrator
- Diana Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom,
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Mary Norton, FIRST EDITION,The Borrowers,Diana Stanley
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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