NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers. Illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1953]. 8vo, [viii] 180pp. Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in black. 3 double-page, 10 full-page, and numerous smaller b&w illustrations. Spine ends and corners a tad worn, spine and upper edge a tad sunned, else an internally clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (slight chipping at spine ends and corners, 1” x ½” chip at center of front fold, spine a tad sunned and a bit cracked, some light soiling to rear panel, price-clipped).

 

First US edition, issued the year after the first edition in the UK which featured the art of Diana L. Stanley. 1952 Carnegie Medal Winner! The first of five books in following the tiny people who secretly live in the walls and floors of an English home and “borrow” from the big people to survive. The basis for the 1997 film starring John Goodman.