"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

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
Price: £30.00