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Lot 122
Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$256
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] Rey, Margret, and H.A. Rey. Curious George Goes to the Hospital
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First edition. Small 4to. 48 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, decorated in red, front and rear boards soiled; soiling in upper fore-edge of text block, just extending into some leaves; abrasion in lower front hinge, with loss and short closed tear in bottom of front free endpaper; scattered largely light soiling to text; small stain in lower gutter edge of text, beginning at p. 35 to rear paste-down; occasional wear in lower gutter; small abrasion and wear in lower rear hinge; in original pictorial dust-jacket, $3.25 price in upper front flap corner, bottom of front flap clipped, slight remnant of removed sticker on front panel, spine lightly faded; small chips and short tear at spine ends and along edges.
The scarce sixth book in the Curious George series, published in collaboration the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

