LOFTING, HUGH — Doctor Dolittle\'s Zoo

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953. Hardcover. Stated Seventeenth printing of the fifth work in Hugh Lofting\'s popular Doctor Dolittle series, written for a younger reader. With charming black & white illustrations throughout by the author. The author\'s Dr. John Dolittle character traveled the world from his town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, taking advantage of his unusual ability to speak to animals. In this installment, Dr. Dolittle plans and creates a zoo for his animal friends, saying "A Zoo should be an animal home, not an animal prison." --- In full grey cloth-covered boards with Lofting illustration, titling and illustration in red on cover, titling in red on spine. In a dust jacket which matches the cover illustrations, but in color. --- A tightly-bound, unmarked, sound copy but with rounded cover corners. Unclipped jacket ($3.95) with several tears and a chip, remains mostly intact and in removable mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall ; xi, 338 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .