Doctor Dolittle in the Moon

New York: Lippincott, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hugh Lofting. Very good book in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is in very good condition; is price clipped; now in new removable protective cover. Dust jacket has color illustration - green, orange, yellow and black. Red cloth covered boards with black illustration on front, same image as on dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. 70 black and white illustrations. Lippincott hard cover with dust jacket, copyright renewed 1956, 16th printing, 307 pages, illustrated by the author. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.25"") 8th in series, preceded by The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, Doctor Dolittle's Circus, Doctor Dolittle's Zoo, Doctor Dolittle's Caravan, and Doctor Dolittle's Garden; and followed by Doctor Dolittle's Return, Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake, Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary, and Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures. It was originally published in 1928 by Frederick A. Stokes. Doctor Dolittle has landed on the Moon and each day brings a new discovery. He meets Otho Bludge the Moon Man, a Stone Age artist who was the only human on the Moon when it broke away from the Earth. The animals of the Moon flock to Doctor Dolittle, and he discovers how to communicate with the intelligent plants there. But will the lunar flora and fauna ever let him leave?