Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Graham Greene. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Owner's name on inside front page Some staining and foxing Marks etc on binding especially outside back cover
Seller: Chapter Two (Chesham), Chesham, United Kingdom
Greene Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$19.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Colour illustrations throughout. Light thumb marking and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters and hinges; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor splitting and tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is the first edition of Graham Greene's 3rd children's book "The Little Horse Bus", published in 1952. It has wonderful colour illustrations throughout by Dorothy Craigie. The narrative unfolds around Mr. Potter, the neighborhood grocer, whose fortunes take a downturn when a new rival sets up shop directly opposite his store. Numerous escapades ensue, leading to a fortunate twist of fate for Mr. Potter by the story's conclusion. Fair Condition. Red cloth boards with gilt stamped design to front board. Decorated end papers. Illustrations throughout. Front hinge is cracked casuing boards to be loose. Binding is firm and pages are clean with no scribbles. Boards have moderate edge-wear with minor scuffing to corners and small split to spine head. Boards are bowed and there is a small dark stain to front board.
Seller: Hewett's Books, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Copyright 1952. No additional printings indicated. Red boards with gilt vignette on front, gilt titles on spine. Red top stain. 30 [1] pp. Color illustrations by Craigie. Illustrated endpapers. Wear, aging, soiling to covers. Binding is firm. Slight warp to front board. Slight waviness at fore edge of text block. Light soiling to endpapers; light soiling/thumbing wear scattered throughout interior, otherwise free of markings.
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing published by Max Parrish, London . Illustrations by Dorothy Craigie. VG clean and bright condition. Slight browning to endpages. Previous owner's name to top of ffep.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
GREENE GRAHAM. THE LITTLE HORSE BUS. MAX PARRISH 1952, 1952.
Price: US$66.92 + shipping
Description: HB RED CLOTH NAME ABOUT VERY GOOD INTERNALLY SOUND PP35 QTO Illustrated by Dorothy Craigie
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Greene, Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are bowed with the front and rear panels both curving out a little at the fore-edges. There is a little rubbing along the edges of the spine and a little wear to the corners with a bump to the bottom rear corner. The rear panel has some creasing to the top left corner and bands of fading along the top and down next to the spine and there is some light surface marking to the boards. The page edges are a little browned and worn. One inch closed tear at the bottom left corner of the front free endpaper which also has some brown spotting in places. The rear free endpaper has a three inch closed tear to the left edge and a half inch closed tear to the bottom right corner. Page 19 has a one inch closed tear to the bottom edge and some brown stains. A few spots here and there through the book but the pages are otherwise generally clean and unmarked. No jacket. Illustrated by Dorothy Craigie. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham.. The Little House Bus.. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in original red cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine and gilt picture of the Horse bus on front board, some light shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition, unclipped dustwrapper, 2.5cm chip missing from base of spine, small chip from head of spine and small chip from top edge of front cover, otherwise in Very Good condition and now enclosed in a protective wrapper. First edition, pp 35, colour and b&w illustrations throughout.
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover. price clipped owners name.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 32pp, iIllustrated by Dorothy Craigie, boards lightly rubbed in places, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, gilt image of stagecoach and horse to front board, spine lightly sunned, colour illustrated endpapers, pp clean and tidy, colour illustrations bright, small colouring to illustrated fep, internal gutters cracked at fep but pp secure in binding. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. The little horse bus. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$199.87 + shipping
Description: Illus by Dorothy Craigie Dust jacket (not price-clipped) worn at edges, with short tears, & small loss at bottom corner of front panel & head of spine; dj protected in removable clear film. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$237.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good and clean clopy in original red cloth. Complete in original jacket, not price clipped. Extremities worn and with handling wear.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. THE LITTLE HORSE BUS. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$242.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1952. Very good condition with no wrapper. Red cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations. Some light staining to front cover edges. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed with a small tear to lower corner of front panel, foxing on verso and some light marking to rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
GREENE GRAHAM. THE LITTLE HORSE BUS. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$481.22 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. A bump to the bottom right hand corner of the front board otherwise a near fine copy in a fine D/W. Illustrated by Dorothy Craigie. Scarce in this condition. A nice copy
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very bright copy in a like dj which has had a closed tear professionally repaired. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with chips and tears. Inscribed by the illustrator, 'For Clifford with love Dorothy.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. The Little Horse Bus. Max Parrish, 1952.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1952 Max Parrish Hardback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ clipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustrations by Dorothy Craigie.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham; Craigie, Dorothy. THE LITTLE HORSE BUS. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Greene's crime thriller for young children, spectacularly illustrated by Dorothy (Glover) Craigie. Greene's third book for children, and the first to be published with his name attached, is a vigorous attack on the cruel displacement of small neighborhood grocers with three cats and one pony by sterile corporations with too much money and no cats at all. The book was re-illustrated in 1974 by Edward Ardizzone; this scarce first edition features the remarkable and very different work of Dorothy Mary Glover, onetime theatre designer and prolific writer and illustrator under the names Dorothy Craigie and David Craigie. A beautiful copy. 8.5'' x 7''. Original gilt-stamped red boards. Red topstain. Pictorial endpapers. In original unclipped (8/6 net) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout by Craigie. 35, [1] pages. Mild edgewear. A few small scuff marks and tiny closed tears to jacket; faint foxing to verso.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. THE LITTLE HORSE BUS. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Greene, Graham. THE LITTLE HORSE BUS; illustrated by Dorothy Craigie. London: Max Parrish, (1952). FIRST EDITION. 8vo - 8-11/16" x 7-5/16". Red cloth covered boards with decoration stamped in gilt to front cover, and titles stamped in gilt to spine for what is basically a flawless copy of the book. Original publisher's color pictorial priced (8/6 NET) dust wrapper with minute touches of rubbing to the flap fold corners, a single short closed tear, 1/2" long, to the top edge of back panel, and light scattered foxing which is mainly visible on the back flap for what is a nice example of the dust wrapper. 35 pp. Graham Greene's third children's book, coming after "The Little Fire Engine" from 1950 and "The Little Train" from 1946, which he secretly wrote, but gave the writing credit to Dorothy Craigie. The book tells the story of Mr. Potter, the local grocer who falls on hard times when a new competitor locates right across the street from his store; many adventures ensue and in the end, a change in fortune occurs for Mr. Potter; illustrated in vibrant colors by the same Dorothy Craigie to whom Greene gave the writing credit to for "The Little Train;" minor light scattered spotting to front paste-down, first leaf, last two leaves and back paste-down, otherwise internally the book is fine. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is VERY GOOD +.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Graham Greene. The Little Horse Bus - INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
Price: US$3528.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - The book is in very good or better condition. The red boards are very clean indeed with just a little bowing. Internally, the pages are clean and fresh. The book has been Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper. The book is free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is in very good condition. There is very light wear to the spine tips, but the wrapper is free of any loss, tears or chips. Correctly priced at 8/6net.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom