Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Hugh Lofting:. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CIRCUS. Jonathan Cape London 1927, 1927.
Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Description: Fair (no dj, grey cloth with green lettering, spine tanned and frayed top and bottom, 2" split to cloth at side of spine, front and back hinges cracked with webbing exposed, textblock binding reasonably firm, pages are clean and bright with one illustration neatly coloured in, small area of loss to bottom corner of one page but no loss to text) octavo 320pp.Third impression.
Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Price: US$5.92 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1927. Third Impression. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Colour illustrated frontispiece with black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters and hinges with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and sticker to front pastedown, endpaper and title page. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall. Book has slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Circus. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are worn and marked.Foxing.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hugh Lofting:. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S ZOO. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Description: Fair. Cream cloth covers are grubby and torn along the spine without loss. The text block is in very good condition, as is the binding. Second impression with coloured endpages and B&W line illustrations by the author.
Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Jonathan Cape, London, 1927.
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Octavo hardback. 320 pp.Colour frontispiece and end papers with many black & white illustrations by the author. Generally Good condition. Spine faded - titles just legible
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's caravan. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Price: US$8.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927 Jonathan Cape first edition hardback; good condition copy, faded beige boards, good+ inside, no dj; UK bookdealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
HUGH LOFTING. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1927.
Price: US$9.63 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Pale blue/gray cloth boards with purple titles to spine and front board. 205 x 140 mm approx.colour birds Illustrated end papers. 320pp. All illustrations as called for. First Edition 1st printing 1927. Fair (Book- Cloth splitting at spine edge to front board,spine sunned, ink gift inscription christmas 1927 to half title. Several of the b/w illustrations have been coloured by a child's hand. A few corners turned and occassional marginal soiling. A Reading copy only of the first edition). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Jonathan Cape, London, 1927.
Price: US$10.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 319pp with many illustrations, three defaced with paint.Coloured endpapers clean. Grey cloth purple titles.
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Jonathan Cape, London, 1927.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback: colour pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece + many full page b/w illustrations by the author, no dj, book is bound in cloth which is faded on the spine and has some rubbing, spine tips are bumped, prize plate and a small hole on the front flyleaf, some foredge and internal foxing, several illustrations neatly coloured in, still g. 8vo, 319pp.
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. Jonathan Cape, London, 1927.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 205 x 145mm. pp. 319. English text. First edition of Hugh Loftings 'Doctor Dolittle's Caravan'. Black and white illustrations and coloured frontis and endpapers. Bound in original gray boards with purple lettering to spine and front cover. Creasing to top right corner of front cover and some foxing and marking to edges. Binding strong, but some marking to boards. No ownership inscription or underlining.
Seller: Peter Rhodes, Southampton, United Kingdom
LOFTING, HUGH.. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1927., 1927.
Price: US$16.73 + shipping
Description: 318 pp, coloured pictorial end papers and frontispiece, line drawn plates and illustrations, sunned spine (restored), else good copy. . First edition. Delightful illustrations by the author.
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
Hugh Lofting. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CIRCUS.. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Price: US$22.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
LOFTING, Hugh (1886-1947). Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.319 [1]. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with purple titles to spine and upper. Toning and marks to edges. Spine heavily toned, with a strip of heavy adhesive stains to upper board. Good. The sixth 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. Jonathan Cape, London, 1927.
Price: US$56.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grey cloth covered boards with mauve lettering at the front cover and at the spine. Spine is lightly sun toned. Illustrated with a color frontispiece plate and full-page black and white drawings by the author. Illustrated color end-papers of green and yellow birds on a perch eating red berries. Light foxing to first three pages. Book pages are clean with no marks. Dust jacket is in poor condition and is now protected in mylar. Dust jacket is missing pieces at the top and bottom of the spine, tears at all four corners, one inch tear along the front bottom edge, inside flaps are all clipped, spine is sun toned, and DJ is soiled. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS 12861 04/2022
Seller: Bookensteins, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Zoo. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition second impression from 1927 in VG condition, there is some minor spotting to pages but nothing remarkable, binding is firm. The jacket has some scuffing and general wear but is remarkably good considering its age, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Caravan. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 20.5 x 15 cm. 319 pp. Jacket has corners slightly clipped but price (7s.6d. net) intact; some wear to edges and small area of loss to spine title; some darkening. Pale green boards with vermillion titles: clean with minimal wear. Beautiful decorative end papers. Entirely clean throughout with A1 binding. Darkening to top of text block edge. Slight lean.
Seller: Undercover Books, Norwich, NFK, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1927, First Edition. Half leather binding with the original cloth boards. Illustrated throughout by Lofting. Illustrated paste downs and end papers by Hugh Lofting. One of those uniquely magical Hugh Lofting Tales brought to a rather surreal life by his equally magical illustrations. 319pp. Approximately 8 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition leather spine faded to brown from purple, gilt titles an decoration. Joints good condition gently worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition original cloth boards with maroon titles to the front contained in a brown decorative border, there is the small Cape urn design in the centre of the rear board, both boards are marked. Page edges good condition top edge slightly darkened, all tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition illustrated in colour by Lofting. End papers good condition illustrated in colour by Lofting continued from the paste downs. Title good condition b/w illustration by Hugh Lofting, lightly tanned with minor foxing. Pages good condition full colour frontispiece, numerous illustrations throughout the text, some colour, some b/w, pages are lightly tanned. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1927 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Lofting (Hugh). Doctor Dolittle's Caravan.. Jonathan Cape, 1927.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece and further illustrations by the author, with the title-vignette and 5 of the full-page illustrations skilfully hand-coloured, light foxing to title-page and a few further spots, pp. 319, crown 8vo, original grey cloth, the upper board and backstrip with lettering and border in purple, a few spots to edges, endpapers with colour-printed design by the author, dustjacket with onlaid Lofting illustration to front panel, price-clipped, lightly soiled with gently browned backstrip panel and a few nicks (internally tape-repaired), very good. An example of well-executed hand-colouring adding charm to the work - the only pity that it isn't more extensively carried out.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom