Introducing Doctor Dolittle

Overview:

  • Title: Introducing Doctor Dolittle
  • Author: Hugh Lofting
  • Year: 1987
  • ISBN-10: 0140350837
  • Publisher: Puffin
  • Price: £2.50
  • Pages: 268
  • Binding: unknown
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Introducing Doctor Dolittle
  • Notes:
      3rd reprint of the 1977 Puffin "Compiled by Olga Fricker"
    • Data from complete scan at Archive.org (above). Title page footer: "Puffin Books" under puffin logo Four lines from t.p. verso (quote): Published as Introducing Doctor Dolittle in Puffin Books 1977 Reprinted 1980, 1985, 1987 Copyright (c)Christopher Lofting, 1967 All the drawings in this book are used by permission of Christopher Lofting

      Not listed below: Foreword, p9-10, apparently by the publisher Every chapter, or excerpt, begins with an illustrated, unnumbered title page; probably the original title page of the work excerpted. Every one is divided by multiple contains headings, or chapter titles. The narrative ends on unnumbered page 268.
    • Back cover: "Cover illustration by Jon Riley" (Certainly that illustration is "after Hugh Lofting".) Prices £2.50, A$6.99, NZ$7.99
    • Publication date from Amazon UK as Paperback and "Puffin Classics (27 Aug. 1987)".
    • WorldCat OCLC 456210051 reports size 18cm, which implies 'pb' format. Three library records of the 1977 Puffin (see) report size 19cm, or 'tp' format.