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Greene (Graham). The Little Fire Engine, [1st ed., 1950], coloured illustrations by Dorothy Craigie, original yellow cloth, d.j., repairs to verso, a little rubbed and chipped, oblong 4to, together with The Little Fire Engine, 1973 and Paul Hogarth’s Graham Greene Country, 1986. The first book, with the dust-jacket price of 7/6 is commonly presumed to be a later issue (the first issue bound in pictorial boards and matching jacket priced at 6/-). However it is possible that the two variant bindings were issued simultaneously, with the more robust cloth binding priced higher to reflect the higher production cost. (3)
