Introducing Doctor Dolittle
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Overview:
- Title: Introducing Doctor Dolittle
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Year: 1977
- ISBN-10: 0140308806
- Publisher: Puffin
- Price: £0.70
- Pages: 269
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Introducing Doctor Dolittle
- Notes:
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1st ed. under new title
"Compiled by Olga Fricker"
- Data including price from British Library (BL, below).
- WorldCat record OCLC 16384857 provides summary as "selections from eight of Lofting's books about him and many of the author's original drawings".
- OCLC 15222277 reports 269 pages rather than 268.
- Identity and sequence of the eight books excerpted is from the 1967 edition as Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury.
- Publication date and cover image from Amazon UK 2022-12-11 as Paperback and "Puffin; New edition (27 Jan. 1977)".
- "Cover illustration by Jon Riley" on back cover of 1987 Puffin reprint, seen on Archive.org, with identical cover.