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[Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.159; [1]. With wood engravings printed in red by Diana Stanley, as well as a chromolithographic frontispiece. Red wood engraved illustrations to endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with red titles and illustrations to spine. With the dust-jacket, also illustrated by Stanley. A very good copy in jacket, which is chipped to corners and spine ends. Winner of the Carnegie Medal for children's literature, and a much-loved fantasy.

The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who borrow items from humans to survive.