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Buy this book on-line MAYNE**, WILLIAM: : TIGER'S RAILWAY. [Illustrated by Juan Winjgaard.]LONDON.WALKER BOOKS,1987. ISBN 0744508029.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial,wrap-around artwork by Juan Winjgaard, illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears to edges - but a small indent to upper wrap's lower edge,towards spine/backstrip's edge.Top edge heavily aged/toned - as usual/ normal - fore-edge to a lesser degree,therefore brighter - all with minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting to same.Contents bright,tight and clean - apart from light page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original plain green cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-185pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters,b/w silhouette chapter head-pieces by Juan Winjgaard; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,a contents list/table and 2pp blanks at rear.
Tiger Malik,the Railway Superintendent of Besar District in Eastern Europe,has a curious hobby; he steals the railway engines of neighbouring countries! Not surprisingly this gets him into all sorts of amusing - and often sticky - situations.There's the episode of the troublesome little Rumanian shunting engine,the mystery of the locomotive from China filled with bamboo,the time when Tiger almost loses his wife on the luxurious Vindabona Express from Prague and a host of other unusual adventures.The
redoubtable Superintendent's biggest headache however,is a stretch of line from Insk to Onsk that exists only in the minds of Headquarters - but they'll pack him off to the salt mines if he dares to contradict them! In his efforts to avoid this fate Tiger receives staunch support from young Pauli,Aleksy the work's Foreman,and Andri the poetic chief driver,but only disapproval from Besar's officious Stationmaster,Slivon,who makes detailed notes on everything that happens.
This highly original and entertaining book reveals the distinguished author,William Mayne,at full steam.
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