first edition
1947
by REY H.A.
1947. First Edition. REY, H.A. Curious George Takes a Job. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Quarto, original pictorial red cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9000.First edition of this second installment in the Curious George series, chronicling Curious George's attempts at finding (and keeping) a job without his curiosity getting him into trouble.Published beginning in 1941, the Curious George books (of which this is the second) were written by Margret Rey and illustrated by her husband, Hans Augusto Rey. ""Through the character of Curious George, the adventurous tailless monkey, H.A. Rey projected his (truncated)