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Curious George Takes a Job
by Rey, H. A
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition. 4to, 47pp. Illustrations throughout including vignette endpapers. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Near fine copy with light edge wear in very good jacket which retains its bright yellow and red colors, showing some darkening to spine, and loss at head and some tears at heel. Original price of $2.50 intact. Small Bullock's Wilshire sticker, bearing the same price, to upper margin of rear flap. First edition of the second original Curious George adventure. Date of 1947 on the title and copyright pages, original price of $2.50. Not the more common and likely later Junior Literary Guild edition. Curious George Takes a Job was published 6 years after the first book in the series from the duo of Margaret and Hans Augusto Rey. The titular monkey originally appeared in France in 1939 in "Rafi et les 9 singes," with a different name. George, always getting into mischief, fares no differently in this title, memorably passing out from ether fumes in a hospital shortly after recovering from a broken leg. A bright example of this hard to find book from the classic series for children.
Synopsis
Curious George runs away from the zoo and after many adventures ends up a movie star.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5033
- Title
- Curious George Takes a Job
- Author
- Rey, H. A
- Format/Binding
- 4to, 47pp. Illustrations throughout including vignette endpapers. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Near fine copy with li
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1947
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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