Greene, Graham. THE LITTLE TRAIN by [Graham Greene]; credited to Dorothy Craigie, pseudonym of Dorothy Glover. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., [1946]. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to - 7-1/8" x 10". Yellow cloth covered boards decorated with multiple stylized steam locomotives printed in black, green, red and white, and titles printed in black and red to front cover; back cover decorated with a vignette of a railroad lantern printed in black, red and white, with light touches of rubbing to the corners and head and tail of spine, and minor soiling to the back cover for what is a really nice copy of the book. Original publisher's price-clipped second state color pictorial paper dust jacket repeating the design of the book's cover with the addition of titles printed in black to spine, with slight sunning to the edges and spine, extremely minor chipping to the flap fold corners and tail of spine, and one small discolored spot to back flap for what is a really nice copy of the dust jacket. Color pictorial map within a border of locomotives endpapers. Top edge stained yellow as issued. [3], 42, [3] pp. Graham Greene's first children's book, for which he gave writing credit to his then girlfriend, Dorothy Glover (1901-1991), under the pseudonym Dorothy Craigie. Craigie would also illustrate the other three children's books penned by Greene: The Little Fire Engine(1950), The Little Horse Bus (1952) and The Little Steamroller (1953). The Little Train is a cautionary tale about a little locomotive that was bored with its life, running the same short section of track day in and day out. He decides to run away and see the rest of the world. No spoiler here as to how the story ends. The condition of both the book and the dust jacket are VERY GOOD +. SCARCE # 001165