The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1922. 1st Edition USA; Thirty-First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good: shows light wear to extremities: the corner tips are a little rubbed and the heel of the back strip shows some crimpi; mild mottling to the outside edge of the front panel and a little to the bottom edges of the boards; slight spine lean, but the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A carefully-used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Despite a number of relatively minor flaws, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.65 x 1. 25 inches) . Illustrated with duotone drawings by the author. Language: English. Weight: 18.5 ounces. Decorated End Papers. Black titles and the author's illustrations at the front panel and black titles at the backstrip all on a grey-toned background field. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Hugh Lofting (1886 – 1947) was an English American writer trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Lofting settled in the United States soon after the war and before his first book was published. Hugh Lofting's character, Doctor John Dolittle, an English physician from "Puddleby-on-the-Marsh" in the West Country first saw light in illustrated letters written to his children from the trenches, when the actual news, he later said, was too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England in the 1820s–1840s – The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle gives a date of 1839. The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed began the series in 1920 and won a posthumous Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. Its first sequel, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, won a Newbery Medal. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 364 pages .