The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Philadephia: Lippincott, (1948).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Reprint. Introduction by Hugh Walpole. Illustrated with vignettes by the author. Dampstained red cloth binding, extremities worn a good copy in fair only dust jacket chipped, stained, and scribbled on. The first Doctor Dolittle book from the illustrated letters he wrote to his children while serving during WWI.
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Hugh Lofting
birth name: Hugh Lofting
born: 1/14/1886
died: 9/26/1947
Biography
English-born American author and illustrator of a series of children's classics about Doctor Dolittle, a chubby, gentle eccentric physician to animals. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore