Doctor Dolittle’s Circus

New York: Fred[erick] A. Stokes, 1924. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With colour frontispiece, illustrated title and 79 plates, all by Lofting. Original decorated yellow cloth with illustrated end-papers, binding a bit soiled, but generally a very good copy. Inscribed by the author on half-title ("Sincerely yours, Hugh Lofting"). First American edition. A presentation copy of the fourth book in the Doctor Dolittle series. Here Doctor Dolittle lends his rare Pushmi-Pullyu to the circus to raise money. As all of the animals there love him, he is shortly running the show. Parts of this story, including some of the plot and characters, were included in the 1967 film starring Rex Harrison.