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The little steamroller works at London Airport keeping the roadways in working order. He is manned by Bill Driver and the pair work all year round, their only holidays being "Christmas, Easter, Whitsun and August Bank Holiday (and it always rained on August Bank holiday)." The Black Hand gang is an international smuggling organization that deals predominantly in precious jewels and metals. They are particularly effective because they employ a complex pictographic code for their communiques. This particular Christmas Eve, the Black Hand's cleverest smuggler Mr. King is bringing a shipment of gold nuggets from Africa. He has hidden the gold in fake toy blocks that he claims are Christmas gifts for his children. At London Airport it has snowed all night causing serious flight delays. The little steamroller has rolled back and forth back and forth clearing the snow. Despite this work, he wakes up at five in the morning Christmas Eve with a sense that something is amiss. He must be early to the airport today. It is just then that Mr. King's plane arrives at London Airport twelve hours late. He pushes his way to customs. He sails through without any trouble. He's out of the airport and almost into a car when the wind snatches a piece of paper from his hand and blows it up against the little steamroller. The little steamroller recognizes that the paper contains a secret code. He tries to summon the authorities, but there is no time, so he smashes into the smuggler's car. When the police arrive, the criminal is on the ground, ready to be apprehended. The little steamroller is awarded the Queen's Police Medal for his bravery.
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- PublisherBodley Head Children's Books
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0370020235
- ISBN 13 9780370020235
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages48
- IllustratorArdizzone Edward
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). Ex-Library. This is the story of the little Steamroller and how he caught the smugglers. Book is in fair condition with usual ex-library marks, heavy cover wear, edgewear, soil, most of the spine cover is missing, browning of the pages, and tape stains on the covers. About 20 pages, 7 x 9.5. Seller Inventory # 403674
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Book Description First Edition. Very good copy in the original colour-printed boards in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 x 24 cm. Subjects: Children's stories; Smuggling ; Juvenile fiction; Airports ; Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 399208
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). 1st Edition. Early in his career Greene took time off from spies, Catholic guilt and whiskey priests to produce a series of charming children's books Confirming this book is NOT an ex-lib; Pages are bright and clean; no writing or tears and binding tight. Illustrated paper boards are bright and colorful with minimal edgewear. DJ illustration bright and colorful; some shelf wear or rubbing along edges and folds; small closed tears on spine and back; DJ not price clipped. Seller Inventory # 000077
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Book Description Illustrated Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). First Edition. "Very early one snowy winter's morning at London Airport, just before Christmas, the little steamroller was hard at work keeping the road in good condition for cars. Also at the Airport that morning was Mr.King, newly arrived from Africa. Nobody, not even the Customs Officers, knew that he was a wicked smuggler, one of the members of the dreaded Black Hand gang. But thanks to the little steamroller, their Dirty Plan was foiled just in the nick of time. One of Graham Greene's first children book The Little Steamroller was originally published many years ago and is now reissued with entirely new illustrations by Edward Ardizzone."; wear to top of spine; in edge-worn, price-clipped D/J (with bottom 4cm spine missing & tears back flap& top spine); small bookshop sticker inside front cover; creases to f.e.p. but internally very clean; 46 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Illustrator: Ardizzone, Edward. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Children. ISBN: 0370020235. ISBN/EAN: 9780370020235. Inventory No: CHD00002. Seller Inventory # CHD00002
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First thus. Illustrated pale green d/jkt, clipped; very intact, but a little worn and frail; app 1" vertical split in rear upper edge. Illustrated boards (same as d/jkt); light edge wear; light creasing to head and tail of spine. Colour illustrations. Early in his career Greene took time off from spies, Catholic guilt and whiskey priests to produce a series of charming children's books. ; Landscape 4to (10" x 7"); 44 pages. Seller Inventory # 49603
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Thus. dj (price clipped) a little worn at spine tips, short tear at lower rear, a little rubbed on edges of jacket and colour pictorial boards, illustrated in colour throughout by EDWARD ARDIZZONE, light vertical crease on first 2 pages, some light internal foxing, vg. oblong 4to, 48pp. Seller Inventory # 07C59
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1974. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Oblong format, pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Small split to centre of spine (2.5cm). Inscripiton in ink to front free-endpaper. Pale page browning to endpapers. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with tear to centre of spine and a few light grubby marks to front panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!. Seller Inventory # 1317584
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st thus. A very good copy in a similar dust jacket of the first edition of this story for children, by Graham Greene, reissued in 1974 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Dust Jacket: yellow paper with colour painting and black lettering to front, black lettering to spine, and smaller colour painting to rear; slight rubbing to edges and the occasional small tear but no loss; really in very good condition for its age; not price clipped (now protected). Cover: paper covered boards to match dust jacket; very bright and clean; few visible signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings, inscriptions or book plates; slightest darkening to page edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. 48 pp. Landscape format. Seller Inventory # 003468
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Book Description Board. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). The book is bright and firm, touch of browning, outline of what may have been owners plate on inside front cover. The dj, clipped, has a fair amount of wear with a few nicks, little loss. Size: Oblong 12mo. Seller Inventory # 6000040
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