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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

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