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Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S ZOO. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1926.
Price: US$8.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . no dustjacket, 1926 1st slight cover wear, hinge tender, clean copy
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. The Story of Doctor Dolittle. Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1926.
Price: US$15.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1926. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
LOFTING,HUGH. Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. jonathan cape london 1926, 1926.
Price: US$15.15 + shipping
Description: first edition 320pp ills.[b/w by author] VG- (grey cloth,mod.rubbed and stained,sl.browned spine,mod.chipping to extrems.,shaky binding barely attached at both ep gutters,prelims.and edges sl.foxed w.some minor soiling to contents,spine cracked and shaky) lacks d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Lofting,Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are worn and marked.Foxing.Well bound.Good copy.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. Jonathan Cape, London, 1926.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers rubbed/stained, spine dulled, corners and head/tail of spine bumped, extremities rubbed. Illustrated endpapers. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Colour frontispiece. 320pp. Illustrated in black and white. Internally EXCELLENT, CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 105319; 8vo
Seller: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books, CARMARTHEN, United Kingdom
HUGH LOFTING. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CIRCUS. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1926.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards rubbed and marked, spine lightly darkened, prelims lightly foxed. Clean throughout with lovely illustrations. Good.
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Circus. London: Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: Second impression. 8vo. 320 pp. Publisher's pale grey cloth, green lettered to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket with colour illustration mounted to the upper panel, colour pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Jacket spine tanned with small losses to the extremities, the outer margins of pages 13 and 14 sometime repaired with a now yellowed tape. An early printing of the fourth book in the Doctor Dolittle series, first published in 1925.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh (1886-1947). Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. London: Jonathan Cape, 1926, 1926.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Description: [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.320. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to verso of fly-leaf. Toning to edges, otherwise a nice clean copy internally. Light wear to boards, with with heavier rubbing and browning to spine. Good. The fifth in the Dolittle series, published a year after the US edition.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN (1ST ED, 2ND PRT). Stokes, NY, 1926.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely 1ST US ED, 2ND PRT (stated May, 1927) prt of this much loved Dolittle title- #6 in the series. First published in October, 1926. Lovely tissue protected color frontis showing a pig "seated between a Marchioness and the conductor of a symphony orchestra". Many full page b/w line drawings (75 in all). Blue decorative cloth with charming paste-down on cover (same illus as frontis). Book is very clean & tight with wonderful colored "canary" endpapers. DJ is facsimile of original stunning Jonathan Cape (UK) dustjacket. A wonderful addition to volume most often found sans DJ. The Doctor buys a canary, who has a marvelous voice. He then creates a "bird's opera" and the adventures begin! A terrific volume! This book was privately owned & a child has created small, neat library pocket which was attached to rear inside cover. Actually quite charming.
Seller: Elaine Woodford, Bookseller, durham, NC, U.S.A.
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. Jonathan Cape, 1926.
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, no dust wrapper. 1st Edition - published by Jonathan Cape, London 1926. Publisher's original, grey fine ribbed cloth, front title and spine lettered in blue. Illustrated end papers in colour. First Edition, 1st printing, 1926. No inscriptions. A very nice copy. Uncommon.
Seller: Alice Through The Looking Glass, London, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN. Stokes, NY, 1926.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely 1ST US ED, 1st prt (stated October, 1926) of this much loved Dolittle title- #6 in the series. First published in October, 1926. Lovely tissue protected color frontis showing a pig "seated between a Marchioness and the conductor of a symphony orchestra". Many full page b/w line drawings (75 in all). Blue decorative cloth with charming paste-down on cover (same illus as frontis). Book is very clean & tight with wonderfull colored "canary" endpapers. Rear hinge has been repaired. Child's bookplate on flyleaf. DJ is facsimile of original stunning Jonathan Cape (UK) dustjacket. A wonderful addition to volume most often found sans DJ. The Doctor buys a canary, who has a marvelous voice. He then creates a "bird's opera" and the adventures begin! A terrific volume! This book was privately owned & a child has created small, neat library pocket which was attached to rear inside cover. Actually quite charming.
Seller: Elaine Woodford, Bookseller, durham, NC, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. Jonathan Cape (1926), London, 1926.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous child owner has coloured in 2 of the full page black and white illustrations, on pages 25 and 27. Otherwise near very good. Some staining to tail of spine. No signatures. Some foxing. 30mm tears at head and tail of dust-jacket spine. Small loss to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped ("7s. 6d. net"). Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Scarce in dust-jacket. First UK edition (no additional printings listed on copyright page). 320 pages + colour frontispiece. 88 full page black and white illustrations. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 199 x 133mm. Illustrated by the author. Colour illustrated endpapers. "'A zoo,' said Doctor John Dolittle, 'should be an animal home, not an animal prison.'" - from dust-jacket blurb. Rear panel of dust-jacket with advertisements for 6 titles: The Story of Dr. Dolittle; The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle; Dr. Dolittle's Post Office; Dr. Dolittle's Circus; Porridge Poetry; The Story of Mrs. Tubbs.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand