Poor Stainless: A ‘Borrowers’ Story [1971]
$65
By Mary Norton
First appearance as an independent tale
In stock
Description
- First Thus [J M Dent & Son, London, 1971]; [vi], 26 pages; burgundy cloth, gold titling to spine, corners gently bumped, a near-fine copy; in the excellent illustrated, price-clipped dustjacket, a couple small spots, edges rubbed, 4mm tear at top
- This story first appeared in The Eleanor Farjeon Book [Hamish Hamilton, London, 1966] but was revised by Norton for this edition
- ISBN: 0 460 05816 9 / 0460058169



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