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<PubUpdate>
<Record>600194</Record>
<Submitter>Pwendt</Submitter>
<Subject>Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventures</Subject>
<Note><ul>
Contains <b>only 6 of 8 stories</b> from the original collection (<a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?368452">1st ed.</a>, also 1952). The omitted stories are "The Sea Dog" and "The Story of the Maggot".
WorldCat record {{OCLC|1185760}} reports the original contents (stories only).
<li>
"Especially Selected and Edited by Weekly Reader Book Club" on cover and title page. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition on copyright page.
<li>
"Written and Illustrated by Hugh Lofting" on title page.
<li>
The cover illustration is taken from the illustration on page 136, titled: "Who’s that?" Gub-Gub asked
<li>
There is no price printed on the book.
</ul></Note>
<ModNote>Both library records report the original Lippincott collection, and LC does not list its story contents. (Our record of the 1st ed. links both those records.)
<br><br>
Here in new layout as unnumbered-list, I relocate at the top, and rewrite entirely, one line of the Note by PV --whom I notify momentarily at User talk:Cary.<br>
The other four lines of the original are preserved as four bullet points --literally without change, as ISFDB submission view shows -- <br>
"If I clerk correctly" :--)</ModNote>
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