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Lofting,Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: the boards are rubbed,marked and lightly edgeworn.foxing maily to end pages.well bound.[J.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
LOFTING, HUGH. Doctor Dolittle's Circus. Jonathan Cape 1933, 1933.
Price: US$12.23 + shipping
Description: Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Return. UK: Jonathan Cape,, UK, 1933.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hbk no d/w; Vg-; slight damp marking to cover - see photograph on abe and our own site, else a very good copy - extremely clean and without any handwriting eg names, inside; ; Doctor Dolittle; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A bright copy with just a few small marks on the spine.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Price: US$13.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 288 pp. Decorated end-papers, colour frontispiece and 11 black and white full page illustrations by the author. Edges lightly foxed, spine faded but black title very clear. Unobtrusive owner's name on half-title.
Seller: Bellcourt Books, Hamilton, VIC, Australia
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1933.
Price: US$13.38 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Clothbound hardback first edition in fair condition.
Seller: Bellcourt Books, Hamilton, VIC, Australia
Price: US$14.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION 1933, LACKING DUSTWRAPPER, 8vo, 205 x 130 mm, 8 x 5¼ inches, grey cloth, dark green decoration and lettering, colour illustrated endpapers, 288 pages. Coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Book leaning very slightly, spine just very faintly browned, 5 mm (¼") nick at head of spine, occasional very light staining to margins, no inscriptions. Very good (lacking dustwrapper). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Price: US$14.12 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st UK printing 1933 Still firmly bound and has been carefully read.Gift inscription on the half title page. No torn, loose or missing pages. Illustrated in colour on the endpapers & frontis plus many b/w drawings by the author. Some wear & a few small marks to the hard cover. Inside the pages are clean. Spine leans. No jacket
Seller: Dandy Lion Editions, Beare Green, Dorking, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pale green cloth boards with green lettering, lacking dustwrapper; 288pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills by the author. Slight lean to spine; significant foxing to spine; light foxing to page block edges; attractive previous owner bookplate to reverse of frontis. [420: H3]
Seller: Jenny Wren Books, Maidstone, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. Jonathan Cape, UK, 1933.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 3rd Imp. some soiling and fading to bds. spine sunned. bump/fray to spine ends and corners. 12mm and 15mm tear to top spine end. small fray to front spine edge. Colour illus endpapers. split to spine at front endpapers. owners inscription to half title. Colour illus to frontis. b/w illus to text. a very little light smudgy soiling to interior. bindings loosening between pages 224/225
Seller: Harry Righton, evesham, United Kingdom
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Price: US$23.10 + shipping
Description: 3rd impression. 201 x 134mm, light grey cloth lettered & ornamented in black on spine & upper cover, pp.320, pictorial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece, 70 illustrations in text. Spine slightly faded, small nick at head of lower hinge, leaf preceding frontispiece neatly removed. Near very good copy. .
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh (1886-1947). Doctor Dolittle's Return. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.288. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's grey cloth with orange titles to spine and upper. A little spotting to fly-leaves and facing leaves. Toning to edges, otherwise a nice clean copy internally. Light wear to boards, with with heavy browning to spine. Good. The tenth in the Dolittle series, published in the same year as the US edition.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
LOFTING,HUGH. Doctor Dolittle's Return. jonathan cape london 1933, 1933.
Price: US$41.67 + shipping
Description: first edition 288pp ills.[b/w w.col.frontis.by author] VG+ (beige cloth,sl.rubbed and mod.stained,sl.browned spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,prelims.and edges sl.soiled o/w contents clean,sl.cocked) lacks d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$57.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Covers a little sunned, illustrative end-papers, attractive ownership label to half title, no other inscriptions, generally VG in DJ with paste-on picture, some large chips to the edges, fair condition only.
Seller: Byre Books, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom
LOFTING, Hugh.. Doctor Dolittle's Return.. London, Jonathan Cape 1933., 1933.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's label on the bottom hinge corner of the front paste-down, a mild (thumbnail size) stain on the cloth, otherwise very good in a good/fair price-clipped dustjacket with some professional restoration (a few small closed tears, a piece restoring the title on the spine, and the excised price of 5s on the spine has also been restored). British author and illustrator Lofting (1886-1947) studied civil engineering and architecture, first in the US at MITand later at London Polytechnic. He then became a surveyor in Canada, worked for railway companies in Africa and Cuba, and served with the British Army in Flanders and France during World War I. Lofting's family was settled in New York and the Dolittle stories began in versions he sent home in letters to his children during his war years. Altogether Lofting wrote 13 Doctor Dolittle novels (many rather episodic in style) between 1920 and 1953, published by Stokes & Lippincott in the US, and Jonathan Cape in the UK. The editions/printings up to the mid-1950s are the best for collectors, handsomely bound with wonderful jackets illustrated in colour by the author, each with an on-laid colour plate within an illustrated border design individually designed for the title, vibrant colour endpapers, a colour frontispiece, and many b/w drawings. Later, from the 1960s, Cape in England continued to publisher the Dolittle books in a good format, , with the jackets and endpapers redesigned by talented artist Jan Pienkowski, in Lofting style, but the original production and artistic qualities did not survive. The pre-1950s editions are now becoming scarcer in collectible condition with each passing year.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Lofting (Hugh). Doctor Dolittle's Return.. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece, title-page design and 14 full-page illustrations by the author, 12 of the latter charmingly hand-coloured, contemporary gift inscription to half-title, a few spots, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original grey cloth, the upper board and backstrip with lettering and border in green, 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 m(internally tape-repaired), very good. The hand-colouring to this book is well-executed and enhancing - particularly noticeable given that the register of the colour-printing to the frontispiece is a little off. It is possibly the work of the book's original recipient, one Stephanie Coltant, who received this book for Christmas from her father in the year of publication.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle's Return. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: A smart copy of this first edition children's book in the 'Doctor Dolittle' series by Hugh Lofting, complete with the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of this ninth book in Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittleseries, following the adventures of a Victorian English physician who has the ability to speak with animals, and favours animal patients over humans. The story originally appeared in the letters sent by the author from the trenches in the First World War to his children at home.Complete with the vanishingly scarce, clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and full page line drawings in black and white by the author. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart, spine and boards only lightly bumped to the spine and extremities, few faint minor spots to the spine. The dust wrapper sound, price clipped with some sunning to the spine, lightly soiled to the wraps, chipped with few minor closed tears, some loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Light faint spot to the odd leaf, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. With a coloured frontispiece and other full page black and white line drawings by the author. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom