The Little Train
by Lenski, Lois
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Previous owner's name in ink on recto of free front endpaper. Otherwise in fine condition./Jacket is price clipped and has one tiny 1/8 tear at bottom edge. Otherwise sturdy and fine.
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. Eighteenth printing - 1957. Light green cloth stamped in black. Small oblong 8vo. 7-1/4" x 8-3/4". Unpaginated. Charming pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink on recto of free front endpaper. Otherwise in fine condition./Jacket is price clipped and has one tiny 1/8 tear at bottom edge. Otherwise sturdy and fine.. Illustrated by the author.. Engineer Small has a little train. The engine is black and shiny and with the help of Fireman Shorty and Conductor Little, Engineer Small drives the little train from one end of his run to the other. . . . . . Readers who were friends with Mr. Small when he was an airplane pilot, a sailor and drove his little auto will welcome him in this new capacity. In both her text and illustrations Lois Lenski has the ability to make clear to five-year-olds the fundamental workings of a little train.
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- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 348
- Title
- The Little Train
- Author
- Lenski, Lois
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by the author.
- Format/Binding
- Light green cloth stamped in black. Small oblong 8vo. 7-1/4" x 8-3/4". Unpaginated. Charming pictorial endpapers
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's name in ink on recto of free front endpaper. Otherwise in fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Jacket is price clipped and has one tiny 1/8 tear at bottom edge. Otherwise sturdy and fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Eighteenth printing - 1957
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
Terms of Sale
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Frogtown Books, Inc.
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