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The Little Grey Men

The Little Grey Men

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The Little Grey Men

by 'B. B.' [Watkins-Pitchford, D. J.]

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
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[London]: Methuen & Co Ltd/ Eyre & Spottiswoode (publishers) Ltd 1970. 8vo.Illustrated. 200 pp., Hardcover with pictorial boards and dustjacket. Jacket is edgeworn with tears to the head. Minor spotting to the extremities, other wise clean and bright. Illustrated in both black and white and colour. Signed by the author and artist, D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. The novel won the Carnegie Medal for the year's best children's book in 1942. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1970.

Synopsis

The Little Grey Men is a children's storybook by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writing under the pseudonym “BB”. It tells the exploits of four gnomes, named after the flowers Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry. The Little Grey Men won BB the 1942 Carnegie Medal in Literature. In 1975 The Little Grey Men was adapted into a 10 part animated series, called Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry, by Anglia Television in the U.K.

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Bookseller
Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
64653
Title
The Little Grey Men
Author
'B. B.' [Watkins-Pitchford, D. J.]
Illustrator
Watkins-Pitchford, D. J.
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Methuen & Co Ltd/ Eyre & Spottiswoode (publishers) Ltd 1970
Place of Publication
[London]
Date Published
1970
Size
8vo.Illustrated
Keywords
gnome,fairies,children's literature,Carnegie Medal
Bookseller catalogs
Illustrated; Children's;

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