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Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary

Hugh Lofting

First published 1950
Series Doctor Dolittle #11
Publisher J. B. Lippincott
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Cover art Hugh Lofting
Pages xi+276
Price $2.75

Per Wikipedia: -- Published posthumously (Lofting died 1947) -- Completed by Lofting's sister-in-law Olga Michael -- Published in part by the Herald Tribune Syndicate in 1924 -- Repeated or expanded in part from Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (1926)

1st ed., posthumous Completed by Lofting's sister-in-law Olga Michael (see Title record) Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advertisement 1950-10-22 Chi. Tribune pi11 and LA Times pD7, "Doctor Dolittle in his latest – and last – book-length adventure" Several reviews 1950-11-12, Sunday of Children's Book Week (US) Cover artist evident from Wikipedia image

For the 2007 Lofting Press ed., reported reproduction of this one, Amazon as of 2016-12-30 provides "Look Inside!" reported "Kindle edition (2013) from Lofting Press", which shows: -- title page illustrated by the writer, "Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia-New York", no date -- "Introduction" signed by the writer's widow Josephine Lofting, no date -- Contents, list of 26 chapters as Part One, ch I-IX; Part Two, ch I-VII; Part Three, ch I-X

No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary 1951 Jonathan Cape Hardcover Novel 286
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary Cover 1988 Dell Trade Paperback Novel Hugh Lofting xv+269
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary Cover 2007 Lofting Press Trade Paperback Novel xi+276
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary Cover 2008 Lofting Press Hardcover Novel 292
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary Cover 2011 Oxford City Press Hardcover Novel 246
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary Cover 2013 Lofting Press eBook Novel