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First edition, first impression, the winner of the 1952 Carnegie Medal. Carpenter and Prichard describe this, the first in the author's series of five Borrowers books, as "one of the outstanding English children's books, fit to rank with The Wind in the Willows and The Hobbit, to both of which it has resemblances". Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards, pictorial onlay of the frontispiece set within a keyhole blocked in gilt, decoration to turn-ins, red endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated by Diana Stanley. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding. Carpenter and Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, 1984, p. 76. Grolie Children's 100, 91.

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