We are open Monday - Wednesday by appointment, Thursday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30, we continue to trade online as normal.

Your Account | Basket

" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "

— Henry Ward Beecher

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

— C. S. Lewis

"Books are a hardbound drug with no danger of overdose. I am the happy victim of books."

— Karl Lagerfeld

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."

— Marcel Proust

Doctor Dolittle's Caravan.

LOFTING, Hugh (1886-1947).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [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. Item #59879

Price: £30.00

Standard worldwide shipping and insurance is free for all items ordered directly through our website. For expedited delivery, please contact us directly. See our full terms.

Add to Basket Ask a Question

See all items in Literature, Illustrated & Plate Books, Children's Books

See all items by Hugh LOFTING