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The Dog Ambulance

Hugh Lofting

First published 1952
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Doctor Dolittle


During the 1920s: written and illustrated by Lofting; distributed by the Herald Syndicate; published by American newspapers presumably including the New York Herald (New York Herald Tribune from March 1924).

"Because some of the stories were written in sequence with others, my sister, {{a|Olga Michael}}, has written a short introductory paragraph to these to clarify the settings and introduce the characters. Otherwise, they stand as originally written." --1952 Foreword by Lofting's widow Josephine Fricker Lofting

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1952 Cover Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures J. B. Lippincott / BCE Collection 29
September 1952 Cover Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures J. B. Lippincott Collection |3
October 1966 Cover Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures J. M. Dent Collection |3
1967 Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury J. B. Lippincott Collection |8
March 1968 Cover Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury Jonathan Cape Collection 277
January 1977 Cover Introducing Doctor Dolittle Puffin Collection |8
1980 Cover Introducing Doctor Dolittle Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) Collection 259
October 1986 Cover Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury Dell Yearling Collection 317
August 1987 Cover Introducing Doctor Dolittle Puffin Collection 259
1990 Cover Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury Buccaneer Books Collection |8
September 1998 Cover Doctor Dolittle Stories Red Fox Collection 351