THE GREY GENTLEMEN
Written by Michael Ende
Published by Burke Publishing Company Ltd.
in 1974
ISBN: 0222003677
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THE GREY GENTLEMEN
Written by Michael Ende.
Stock no. 1830630
1st UK.
1974.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A fantasy novel about the concept of time and how it is used by humans in modern societies. Originally published in German in 1973. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Text in brown and illustrations brown & white. 238 pages. ISBN: 0222003677. Spine lightly rubbed and worn. Text block browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, worn at top & tail of spine with 1" split at tail. Overall, a very nice copy of an unusual title.
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Front cover
Contents
- Part One
- MOMO AND HER FRIENDS
- 1 A Big City and a Small Girl
- 2 A Rare Gift and a Common or Garden Quarrel
- 3 An Imaginary Tempest and a Real Thunderstorm
- 4 A Silent Old Man and a Talkative Young One
- 5 Tales for the Many and Tales for One
- Part Two
- TIME LOST
- 6 The Sum Adds up right but is Wrong
- 7 Momo Calls On her Friends and is Called On by an Enemy
- 8 Many Dreams and a Few Doubts
- 9 A Good Conference which Does Not Take Place and an Evil One which Does
- 10 A Furious Pursuit and a Calm Fight
- 11 The Worst Make the Best of a Bad Job
- 12 Momo Comes to Where Time Comes From
- Part Three
- THE HOUR-BLOSSOMS
- 13 A Day There but a Year Here
- 14 Too Many Meals and Two Few Facts
- 15 Found and Lost Again
- 16 Poverty Amid Plenty
- 17 Great Fear and Greater Courage
- 18 Looking Forward without Looking Back
- 19 The Beleaguered Form a League
- 20 The Pursuers Pursued
- 21 The End which is a New Beginning
- AUTHOR'S POSTSCRIPT