The Little Grey Men
by B.B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswoode, UK, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Book Second printing. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding still very good. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Edges very browned and marked. Book covers slightly faded and marked . Illustrator: Denys Watkins-Pitchford..
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47540
- Title
- The Little Grey Men
- Author
- B.B
- Illustrator
- Denys Watkins-Pitchford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Children's Fiction; Denys Watkins-Pitchford Unbranded B.B The Little Grey Men
Terms of Sale
Shiny Owl Books
We do not Drop Ship Internationally. Drop Ships within Australia will attract a $5 surcharge
About the Seller
Shiny Owl Books
Biblio member since 2006
Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...