Doctor Dolittle - Being the History of his Peculiar Life at Home, and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts.
by Lofting, Hugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1922). First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing to boards. A couple of 4mm chips to cloth at tail of spine. No signatures. Some foxing.; First UK edition (no additional printings listed on copyright page). [6], (11)-186 pages. Black and white frontispiece + 30 illustrations (11 full page) accounted for within the pagination. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board, blind-stamped illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 200 x 132mm. Illustrated by the author. Black and white illustrated endpapers. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4503
- Title
- Doctor Dolittle - Being the History of his Peculiar Life at Home, and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts.
- Author
- Lofting, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1922)
- Keywords
- Dolittle Doctor
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.