The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts
From Author Wars - https://authorwars.com/publications/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle-being-the-history-of-his-peculiar-life-at-home-and-astonishing-adventur-295561.html
Overview:
- Title: The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Year: 1920
- Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Price: $2.25
- Pages: 180
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Story of Doctor Dolittle
- Notes: 1st ed., 1st printing
LCCN links e-copies at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL).
Cover artist evident from Wikipedia image (reported 1st ed.) and HDL image (1st ed., 20th printing)
Price from advertisements by Chicago retailer McClurg's Chi. Tribune 1920-12-23 p9 (perhaps 2nd printing); by the publisher NY Times 1921-11-20 p51 (perhaps 6th printing) Late 1922 publisher advertisements of the sequel at $2.50 also note the 9th printing at $2.00.
HDL provides (as of 2016-12-27) full view of four copies but the earliest is a 14th printing, whose copyright page (1923) provides a complete printing history. That 14th printing includes "Introduction to the Tenth Printing" by Hugh Walpole, pp. vii-xii (1922-11-28 per same printing history). Library records that report a roman-numeral page-count probably pertain to that 10th printing or a later one.