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Mary Norton | First Editions
1903 - 1992
Mary Norton, or Kathleen Mary Norton (née Pearson, 10 December 1903 – 29 August 1992), was an English author of children's books. She is best known for the The Borrowers series of low fantasy novels (1952 to 1982), which is named after the characters within - the tiny people who live secretly in the midst of contemporary human civilisation. Norton won the 1952 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising The Borrowers as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.
Her first book was The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons, published by J. M. Dent in 1943. Its sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks followed two years later and they were re-issued jointly as Bed-Knob and Broomstick in 1957. The stories became the basis for the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, which was immensely popular.
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The Borrowers. With Illustrations By Diana Stanley.
London: J.M. Dent, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. 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..... More
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