Introducing Doctor Dolittle
| First published | 1977 |
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| Publisher | Puffin |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Type | Collection |
| Pages | 269 |
| Price | £0.70 |
| ISBN | 0140308806 |
Stated in the 1987 printing (quote four lines): 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 The nominal edition of 1977 to 1987 or later really spans changes in cover illustration (new in 1985, otherwise unknown), ISBN, publication series, and arabic-numeral pagination (back material only).
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1st ed. under new title
"Compiled by Olga Fricker"
- Data including price from British Library (BL, below).
- WorldCat record OCLC 16384857 provides summary as "selections from eight of Lofting's books about him and many of the author's original drawings".
- OCLC 15222277 reports 269 pages rather than 268.
- Identity and sequence of the eight books excerpted is from the 1967 edition as Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury.
- Publication date and cover image from Amazon UK 2022-12-11 as Paperback and "Puffin; New edition (27 Jan. 1977)".
- "Cover illustration by Jon Riley" on back cover of 1987 Puffin reprint, seen on Archive.org, with identical cover.
Searching by ISBN: 0140308806
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| |1 | The Story of Doctor Dolittle (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Short Story |
| |2 | Doctor Dolittle's Circus (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Novelette |
| |3 | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Novella |
| |4 | Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Short Story |
| |5 | Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Short Story |
| |6 | Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Short Story |
| |7 | Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Short Story |
| |8 | Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures (excerpt) | Hugh Lofting | Short Story |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introducing Doctor Dolittle |
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1980 | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Paperback | Collection | Hugh Lofting | 269 | |
| Introducing Doctor Dolittle |
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1987 | Puffin | Unknown | Collection | Jon Riley | 268 |