• Publication: Doctor Dolittle in the MoonPublication Record # 370614
• Author: Hugh Lofting
• Date: 1929-07-00
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Price:
  7/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 319
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: 1st UK ed. OCLC 62500590 (2000 microfiche); sometimes mistakenly catalogued under the abbreviated title Dr. ... Price from review by "M.H." Manchester Guardian 1929-07-26 p7 (as "Doctor ..."; mixed) Publ date inferred from that review date and previous notes that Dolittle 6 and 7 were published on the schedule Dent introduced in 1926, children's books in time for the August holidays OCLC 75958424 describes an 8-page publisher's advertisement for this new book and (with price data) the seven preceding Doctor Dolittle titles

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• Doctor Dolittle in the Moon • juvenile • [Doctor Dolittle • 8] • (1928) • novel by Hugh Lofting