Description
Very Good dust jacket has slight soiling to spine, back panel has stains, price clipped. The Very Good+ binding is blue cloth over boards. Very slight edge rub wear, spine has fade spots. Some toning to end papers. Black-and-white illustrations by Hugh Lofting. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.2″ tall x 5.7″ wide.
Stated “nineteenth Impression”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
The celebrated Doctor Dolittle, travelling toward London with his animal caravan, is on the lookout for some original feature that will take the city by storm. One day, walking along the street, he hears a lovely melody trickling out from a bird store. The Doctor stops short why not add a fine canary soloist to his theatrical troupe? Finding that the handsome yellow singer he has heard is too expensive, he buys, out of sheer pity, an unhappy little green bird, who-the storekeeper tells him-can’t sing a note.
To the vast astonishment of every one, Pippinella turns out to be an exquisite little caroler and with her own dramatic life as the story, choruses of other birds, and a remarkable orchestra, the Doctor arranges a bird opera which creates a tremendous sensation in London.
In addition, the Doctor finds time to carry out two projects dear to his heart, the Animal’s Bank and the Animal Clinic.
Yet this wonderful success did not turn the little Doctor’s head-far from it–for always in
his mind’s eye hung a picture of the little home at Puddleby, the old horse, the garden and the orchard to which some day he earnestly hoped to return.
