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Curious George Takes a Job (First Edition)
by Rey, H.A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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WILLIAMSBURG, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
with 1947 date on title page, correct jacket ads and price ($2.50).
Very Good in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; contemporary 1947 owner's inscription on front endpaper; A few smudges, light pemcil marks and erasures; moderate wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with almost no wear; small tear at heel of spine; a couple of staple holes at top of panels; hardly visible; likely the best jacket you'll ever see; price not clipped ($2.50).
First issue of the second Curious George title, extremely scarce in dust jacket. [This isn't the Literary Guild issue that is more often seen. It appears that the other examples on the market all have the Guild dust jacket.]
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Synopsis
Curious George runs away from the zoo and after many adventures ends up a movie star.
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Details
- Bookseller
- LaCelle Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16850
- Title
- Curious George Takes a Job (First Edition)
- Author
- Rey, H.A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- CHILD,MONKEY,CLASSIC,HIGHSPOT,LANDMARK
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WILLIAMSBURG, Kentucky
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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