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GREENE, Graham. The Little Steamroller. Max Parrish, 1953.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: First edition, copyright 1953. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Endpapers browned. The spine is badly damaged with the bottom half missing. All pages are still intact. Internally clean. Title page mildly creased. Dorothy Craigie (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published: Max Parrish, London, 1953.
Seller: Roy Turner Books, Stockport, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. The Little Steamroller. Max Parrish, London, 1953.
Price: US$218.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Name neatly stamped on front free end paper. Corners bumped. End papers browned. The delicate spine is complete, tiny tear to the top. No dust jacket.
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. The Little Steamroller. Max Parrish, London, 1953.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Copyright 1953 on half title page. Inscribed for 1956 on front free end paper. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to spine ends and top edge. Small faint mark to rear cover but somewhat lost in the image of the clouds.
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$694.52 + shipping
Description: Un volume in 8°, "carré" (19 x22 cm), reliure rigide éditeur, couverture illustrée couverte d'une jaquette illustrée de façon identique (le steamroller ou rouleau compresseur à l'arrêt sur un chantier, avec un personnage en train de fumer, assis tranquillement contre le rouleau). Il s'agit d'un livre pour enfants renommé à juste titre, associant le texte d'un grand auteur (où l'on voit un petit rouleau compresseur intercepter un truand mieux que ne le ferait la police) et les illustrations de Dorothy CRAIGIE lesquelles sont si colorée, si animées et si humoristiques qu'elle sont d'une efficacité totale auprès d'un jeune public. Signalons que Graham GREENE écrivit d'autres livres pour enfants sur des sujets très ptoches: LE PETIT TRAIN, LE PETIT OMNIBUS, LA PETITE POMPE A INCENDIE etc. Notre exemplaire est en EXCELLENT ÉTAT.
Seller: Librairie Dhouailly, Paris, France
Graham Greene. The Little Steamroller - INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.. Max Parrish, London, 1953.
Price: US$3527.59 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK - The book is in near fine condition. The picture boards are very clean indeed with just a little bump to the top corner of the front panel. 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. There is a little offsetting to the front and rear endpaper. The dust wrapper is in very good condition. There is a small chip to the top centre of the rear panel. Correctly priced at 7/6net.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom