Search Results: the little grey men a story by bb watkins pitchford denys

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

HarperCollins, 2004-10-01. library. Good. 5x1x8.

HarperCollins, 2004-10-01. Library Binding. Good.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965 VG+/VG. 12mo. original grey boards (a trifle rubbed & toned, occ. small marks, prev. owner's name and date to upper pastedown, concealed behind flap) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & frayed, faint traces of old tape repair, a little sunning to spine); pp. i-x, 11-256, with illustrations. A very good copy.. Seventh Printing. Hard Cover. VG+/VG. Illus. by Denys Watkins-Pitchford.

Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2004. Hardcover. New. reissue edition. 293 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.00 inches.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers Ltd.), 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 201, + [one leaf of a musical score and poem]. Slim 8vo., measuring 5.75" x 8.5". Lovely illustrated wood-block frontispiece. Adorned with many additional in-text and full-page wood-block illustrations, head-and-tail pieces, and vignettes. Publisher's original light-gray cloth over boards with maroon lettering to the spine, and front board. Light bumps to the spine ends, and tips, spine lettering has slighty faded. A few light spots of scattered foxing to front endpapers, and foredge. Text-block remains thankfully clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding. A lovely first printing of this most charming English children's fantasy. Overall, very good+. "This is a story about the last gnomes in Britain. They are honest-to-goodness gnomes, none of your baby, fairy-book tinsel stuff, and they live by hunting and fishing, like the animals and birds, which is only proper and right. This story concerns… Read More

London: Folio Society 2008. (Hardcover in slipcase) 198pp. Fine. Off-white cloth with red decorations to the covers in fine red slipcase. Color illustrated frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations, musical notation. "I have been in love with this book since my early childhood. My father and I were spending some precious moments together and had gone into our local bookstore - a W.H. Smith & Son, as I recall. He was a great lover of literature, poetry and nature - and he must have been searching for exactly the right book to ignite the spark of those passions in me" - from the Note by Julie Andrews Edwards. Includes Woodcut Illustrations. Illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Preface by Michael Morpurgo. Notes by Julie Andrews Edwards. (Fiction, Fiction, Folio Society).

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode,, 1942. First edition, first impression, of the author's fantasy novel about four gnomes in rural Warwickshire. A contemporary review in the TLS noted that the book "is full of country lore and there is plenty of good sound information to be grained from these little gnomes". The novel won the Carnegie Medal for 1942. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red, front cover with decorative panel in red. With dust jacket. Numerous illustrations from scraper board drawings by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Extremities a little bumped, some creases, biro mark to rear free endpaper, some light foxing; jacket worn with loss and tears, some creases, adhesive tape repairs to reverse, not price-clipped: a very good copy in a good jacket. Times Literary Supplement, 12 December 1942, p. 608.