New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. ©1961. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0152105247 . 192 p. 21 cm. Book club edition. It has no price on the jacket. Sound and square binding in paper-covered boards. Some crinkling at the spine ends. A bit of soil and foxing to the text block edges. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has light wear to the spine ends and corner tips, with a tiny edge tear top edge near spine. Some minor rubbing to the edges and folds. Slight rippling to front panel. An attractive copy of the fourth title in this charming series about the tiny family who lives secretly within an English house. In this one, they are imprisoned in an attic by a greedy couple who want to use them as performers. Book Club Edition .

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Imprisoned in an attic by a greedy couple who want to use them as performers, the Borrowers escape by balloon.

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Seller: Homeward Bound Books (CA)
Seller's Inventory #: 5564
Title: The Borrower's Aloft
Author: Norton, Mary
Illustrator: Beth and Joe Krush
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: Later Printing
ISBN 10: 0152105247
ISBN 13: 9780152105242
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Keywords: 0152105247
Bookseller catalogs: Children's - Series;

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Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.

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Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...