Books

London: J.M. Dent, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing in first issue jacket. 159 p. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Cloth along bottom edge rubbed. Jacket price-clipped, missing small chips at head and tail, light rubbing and a few small closed tears to back panel. The first novel in the popular Borrowers children's book series. Two of the author's other works were made into the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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

First editions will have the original dust jacket illustrated by Diana Stanley.