THE LITTLE GREY MEN
Written by BB
Illustrated by BB
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode
in 1942
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- CHILDRENS
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- WOODCUTS
- GNOMES
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THE LITTLE GREY MEN
Written by BB.
Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1330482
1st.
1942.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A story about the last gnomes in Britain, their exploration of the Folly Brook and their search for Cloudberry, their long-lost brother who went up the Folly and never returned... Grey cloth, red titles. Enchanting b/w wood-engravings. 200 pages. (The true first edition, as this book was later published with colour plates). Spine and corners bumped. Fading to cover at top of spine and top front cover. Endpapers and textblock foxed. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and torn with slight loss to top of spine, rear panel is very slightly grubby.
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Front cover
Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- I. SNEEZEWORT, BALDMONEY, DODDER & CO
- II. THE LAUNCHING OF THE BOAT
- III. THE START OF THE JOURNEY
- IV. DODDER
- V. BALDMONEY AND SNEEZEWORT
- VI. TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED
- VII. CROW WOOD
- VIII. GIANT GRUM
- IX. THE GIBBET
- X. THE GATHERING OF THE WOOD PEOPLE
- XI. THE ANIMAL BANQUET
- XII. THE STORM
- XIII. CASTAWAYS ON POPLAR ISLAND
- XIV. THE SHARK
- XV. THE 'JEANNIE DEANS'
- XVI. HALLOWE'EN
- XVII. A SMELL IN THE AIR
- XVIII. DOWN STREAM