Six books in the Doctor Dolittle series, incl. rare first UK edition of first book 1. "Doctor Dolittle's Circus" by Hugh Lofting - Jonathan Cape, London - 1937 edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: original binding, illustrated endpapers, illustrations present, minor spotting to boards 2. "The Story of Mr. Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting - Jonathan Cape, London - 1924 first UK edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: condition: original binding, illustrated endpapers, illustrations present, minor spotting to boards (rare first UK edition of first Dr. Dolittle Book) 3 "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting - Jonathan Cape, London - 1937 edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: original binding, illustrated endpapers, illustrations present, minor spotting to boards 4. "Doctor Dolittle's Carvan" by Hugh Lofting - Jonathan Cape, 1940 edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: original binding, illustrated endpapers, illustrations present, cracking of boards, minor spotting to boards 5. "Doctor Dolittle's Return" by Hugh Lofting - Jonathan cape, London - 1933 first UK edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: condition: original binding, illustrated endpapers, illustrations present, crackign of boards, minor spotting to boards 6. "Doctor Dolitle'in the moon" by Hugh Lofting - Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world.[1] Doctor Dolittle first appeared in the author's illustrated letters to his children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England, where Doctor John Dolittle lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country.[1] Doctor Dolittle has a few close human friends, including Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg, the Cats'-Meat Man. The animal team includes Polynesia (a parrot), Gub-Gub (a pig), Jip (a dog), Dab-Dab (a duck), Chee-Chee (a monkey), Too-Too (an owl), the Pushmi-pullyu, and a white mouse later named simply "Whitey".[1] Later on, in the 1925 novel Doctor Dolittle's Zoo, Whitey founds (with the doctor's help) the Rat and Mouse Club, whose membership eventually reaches some 5,000 rats and mice.