The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers. Illustrated by Michael Hague. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1991]. 8vo, xiv 177pp. Green quarter cloth stamped in gold with mustard boards pictorially stamped in gold. Light blue endpapers; numerous color illustrations throughout. Edges minutely rubbed else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the artist, Michael Hague, with a 3" squared drawing of Arrietty.
First Michael Hague-illustrated edition. The first book in Mary Norton's beloved, award-winning series about the tiny people who survive by borrowing life's necessities from "human beans" is brought to stunning life through Michael Hague's lush and evocative illustrations. Bringing warmth and emotion to the miniature, sometimes treacherous, world that these tiny people inhabit, this edition is a delight for any collector.
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 #
- 1049704
- Title
- The Borrowers
- Author
- Mary Norton
- Illustrator
- Michael Hague
- Format/Binding
- Green quarter cloth stamped in gold with mustard boards pictorially stamped in gold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Michael Hague-illustrated edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- San Diego
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- xiv 177pp
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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