The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts. Never Before Printed

by Hugh Lofting

$4,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hugh Lofting on the half-title and inscribed, Sincerely Yours: Hugh Lofting: New York: Nov. 11 '21. x , 180 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in blue with pictorial onlay to front cover; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Chromolithographic frontispiece with tissue guard depicting The Farewell Feast , 9 full page illustrations

• Printing: first

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