GREENE, Graham; Dorothy Craigie (illus)

The Little Steamroller: A Story of Adventure, Mystery, and Detection

London: Max Parrish, 1953. Library issue. Small quarto; full blue linen over boards, with gilt decoration on front cover; dustjacket; 36pp; illus. Tight and fine but for the expected offsetting to endpapers. In the pictorial dustwrapper, which has been clipped at both upper and lower corners of front flap, otherwise crisp and bright with a few tiny nicks at margins; Near Fine.

Jacket rear flap contains advertisement for The Little Horse Bus (1952), advertised at 8'6d. In the alternate binding of blue cloth (instead of pictorial boards), intended for library distribution, this binding not noted in Wise. The fourth and last of Greene's books for children. AHEARN APG 034a.

Price: $250.00

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