Gub Gub's Book: An Encyclopedia of Food in Twenty Volumes

Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with pictorial paste-on cover illustration. Good, in poor dust wrapper. 185 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Created by the author of the Doctor Dolittle books, Gub-Gub is the Doctor's pet pig who is a great lover of food. Narrated by Tommy Stubbins, the Doctor's young friend and assistant. Illustrated by Lofting with dazzling color endpapers (a gastronomical map of the world), a color frontispiece (with tissue guard), one interior color plate, and 6 black and white plates. Covers rubbed, dust wrapper worn and chipped but intact. Scarce in dust wrapper.