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Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary.

LOFTING, Hugh (1886-1947).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. [Children's Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.286 [2]. With a colour frontispiece, colour-illustrated endpapers, and frequent in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Toning and spotting to edges. A little toning to spine, and some light general wear to cloth. Very good. The thirteenth in the Dolittle series, published a year after the US edition. Item #59881

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