The Story of Doctor Dolittle

No 1920 book-club edition is documented. The reprint traps are Stokes's own later printings from the same plates, which retain the 1920 copyright notice — since the first carries no printing statement either, absence of a statement alone is not sufficient and the orange cloth, blue blocking, laid-on colour paste-on and three-colour pictorial endpapers must also agree. The second trap is the later Lippincott issues: an abebooks listing offers a 1948 Lippincott copy described as "the printed pricet Edition", and such copies are routinely mis-described on the strength of the surviving 1920 copyright date. Any Lippincott imprint rules out the 1920 Stokes first.