Doctor Dolittle's Garden.

LOFTING, Hugh.

Verlag: London, Jonathan Cape 1932.

Beschreibung

Third impression (first published in 1928). Hardcover. Edges and prelims moderately foxed, bookseller's label on the front paste-down, neat ownership signature on the half-title page, o/w very good in like dustjacket with a few small professionally closed tears, the spine background a little darkened (with a whiter spot where a bookseller's round label once covered the spine price). British author and illustrator Lofting (1886-1947) studied civil engineering and architecture, first in the US at MITand later at London Polytechnic. He then became a surveyor in Canada, worked for railway companies in Africa and Cuba, and served with the British Army in Flanders and France during World War I. Lofting's family was settled in New York and the Dolittle stories began in versions he sent home in letters to his children during his war years. Altogether Lofting wrote 13 Doctor Dolittle novels (many rather episodic in style) between 1920 and 1953, published by Stokes & Lippincott in the US, and Jonathan Cape in the UK. The editions/printings up to the mid-1950s are the best for collectors, handsomely bound with wonderful jackets illustrated in colour by the author, each with an on-laid colour plate within an illustrated border design individually designed for the title, vibrant colour endpapers, a colour frontispiece, and many b/w drawings. Later, from the 1960s, Cape in England continued to publisher the Dolittle books in a good format, , with the jackets and endpapers redesigned by talented artist Jan Pienkowski, in Lofting style, but the original production and artistic qualities did not survive. The pre-1950s editions are now becoming scarcer in collectible condition with each passing year. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30870

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Doctor Dolittle's Garden.

Verlag: London, Jonathan Cape 1932.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag