Greene (Graham) The Little Horse Bus

London, Max Parrish, 1952.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

Greene’s third children’s book with former lover and fellow Victorian crime fiction collector Dorothy Glover (illustrating as Dorothy Craigie). Fully embracing his shared billing, Greene delivers a vigourous attack on corporate monopoly, championing a small neighbourhood grocer, his three cats, and a lone pony against a sterile, displacing conglomerate.