'Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them

Author

NORTON, Mary.

Title

The Borrowers.

Published, Date

London: J. M. Dent & Sons,1952.

Description

First edition, INSCRIBED to half title, woodcut Christmas card signed Mary Norton pasted to recto of frontspiece, colour frontispiece and further line drawings in red throughout by Diana Stanley, pictorial endpapers, original light blue cloth stamped in red, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, without the scarce dust wrapper but a lovely twice-signed copy.

Note

1950's fantasy novel for children in which a family of tiny people live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and "borrow" from the big people in order to survive.

References

Stock Number

77358