CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Graham GREENE. The Little Fire Engine… illustrated by Dorothy
CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Graham GREENE. The Little Fire Engine… illustrated by Dorothy Craigie. London: Max Parrish, [1950.] First edition, oblong 8vo (178 x 273mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Browning to title-page, toning.) Original pictorial cloth (hinges weakened). Note: Greene’s second book for children, but the first to bear his name. – And a further twenty-five volumes for children (including Graham Greene’s ‘The Little Horse Bus’, 1952, 4to, and a signed copy of Edward Gorey’s ‘The Sopping Thursday’, 1979, 8vo, and ‘Grant Richards’s Children’s Annual for 1905’, 1905, 4to) (26).
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Graham GREENE. The Little Fire Engine… illustrated by Dorothy Craigie. London: Max Parrish, [1950.] First edition, oblong 8vo (178 x 273mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Browning to title-page, toning.) Original pictorial cloth (hinges weakened). Note: Greene’s second book for children, but the first to bear his name. – And a further twenty-five volumes for children (including Graham Greene’s ‘The Little Horse Bus’, 1952, 4to, and a signed copy of Edward Gorey’s ‘The Sopping Thursday’, 1979, 8vo, and ‘Grant Richards’s Children’s Annual for 1905’, 1905, 4to) (26).
