The Little Grey Men
by 'BB' (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Fair with no dust jacket. (1959). Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Abrasions to endpapers. Adhesive tape stains to boards. Lacking front flap of dust-jacket. Rear flap of dust-jacket trimmed. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1959 reprint. 255 pages + colour frontispiece. Light blue papered boards with red lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 121mm. Children's novel. With 6 full page b&w illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, as well as smaller vignette illustrations at the end of most chapters. .
Synopsis
The Little Grey Men is a children's storybook by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writing under the pseudonym “BB”. It tells the exploits of four gnomes, named after the flowers Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry. The Little Grey Men won BB the 1942 Carnegie Medal in Literature. In 1975 The Little Grey Men was adapted into a 10 part animated series, called Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry, by Anglia Television in the U.K.
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 17942
- Title
- The Little Grey Men
- Author
- 'BB' (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1959)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....