Doctor Dolittle's Caravan - Hardcover

Lofting, Hugh

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9780397300112: Doctor Dolittle's Caravan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0397300115 ISBN 13: 9780397300112

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1926

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Hard Back.Blue Cloth boards with black dec, and black title to spine. Laid on colour plate to front. Illustrated end papers, xi +342pp.Fronti colour plate with tissue guard + all other illustrations by the author as expected. 1st Edition 1st Printing of Lofting's sixth Doctor Dolittle Book which preceded the British first edition by a year. The author although born in Maidenhead Berkshire having moved to America in 1912 to pursue his writing career. VG+no d/j (Book- light shelf wear to extremities of boards- mainly colour rubbing. Small cracks to papers of front end paper, binding otherwise sound, no previous owner name or inscription. A lovely copy)

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Review:

"Lively and ingenious" (TLS)

"Any child who is not given the opportunity to make the acquaintance of this rotund, kindly and enthusiastic doctor/naturalist and all of his animal friends will miss out on something important" (Jane Goodall)

About the Author:

Hugh Lofting was born in Maidenhead in 1886. As a child he kept a miniature zoo and wildlife museum in his mother's linen cupboard and enjoyed making up stories for his family. He later studied engineering in London and the United States, and visited Canada, Africa and the West Indies. After his marriage in 1912 he settled in the United States. Hugh Lofting fought in the trenches during World War I and it was whilst observing the lack of compassion shown to the horses on the battlefields that the idea for Doctor Dolittle was born. He was the main character in letters Hugh sent home from the front to entertain his children. The successful publication of The Story of Doctor Dolittle in 1920 was followed by a further eleven books. In 1923 Hugh Lofting was awarded the Newbery Medal. He died in 1947.

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