Doctor Dolittle's Return.
New York: Fred'k A. Stokes Co, 1933 Stock Code: 120118
Notes
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title, "Sincerely yours, Hugh Lofting, May 1934". Lofting's works are uncommon signed, with no other signed copies of this work traced at auction.Description
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front cover in green, decoration to front cover in white, pictorial label to front cover, pictorial endpapers.
Illustrations
Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, illustrated title page and illustrations to text all by the author.
Condition
W. D. Ent 1937 Snow White postage stamp to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled and lightly faded, slight wear to very tips, edges browned; an excellent copy.
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