The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
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- Hardcover
- first
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New York, New York, United States
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NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers. Illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1953]. 8vo, [viii] 180pp. Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in navy. 3 two-page, 10 one-page, and numerous smaller b&w illustrations. Spine ends lightly worn, spine discolored due to sunning through jacket with boards lightly spotted, else an internally clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (closed ½" tear at top of front panel, light wear at spine ends and corners, light sunning).
First US edition, issued one year after the UK first, and the first appearance of the Beth and Joe Krush illustrations. 1952 Carnegie Medal Winner! Mary Norton's beloved tale about the Clock family, a family of miniature human-like creatures that live in the nooks and crannies of a quiet country house who "borrow" what they need from the humans they strive to hide their existence from. The basis for numerous films and television series, including the 1997 feature film and the 2010 Studio Ghibli animated film.
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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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049171
- Title
- The Borrowers
- Author
- Mary Norton
- Illustrator
- Beth and Joe Krush
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 8vo
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