ELOISE.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Originally and first published in US,1955.It was reissued in 1969 of 9,300 copies,then a quick 2nd print of 6.500.A commemorative edn was produced in 1995 - a 40th anniversasy edn.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Hilary Knight, illustrated dw/dj with capitalised,black-lettered author name and capitalised,red-lettered title and capitalised, white-lettered illustrator name and credit to front of dw/dj; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name+title as the front's and publisher's b/w illustrated+ lettered colophon and name to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with colour pictorial illustration of Eloise to white baclsground.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain white cloth boards with b/w thumbnail illustration of Eloise jumping up into the air and red-lettered title beneath her,to front board; spine/backstrip with black+red lettering,rear board plain and without illustration or text,and immaculate 4-colour block (b/w,red+pink) repeated illustrated endpapers.UK, slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,7-65pp [paginated] includes story,profuse colour illustrations by Hilary Knight; plus [unpaginated] illustrated title pages.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/ state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 20 year-old age and nature, i.e. a child's book. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of detracting faults.
Eloise lives with her nanny at The Plaza Hotel in New York. The daughter of extremely rich parents, she is left daily to her own devices. She knows everything about The Plaza and everyone in it. Henry James would want to study her. Queen Victoria would recognise her as an Equal. The New York Jets would want to have her on their side. Lewis Carroll would love her (once he got over the initial shock) . She knows everything about The Plaza. She is interested in people when they are not boring. She has Inner Resources. If you take her home with you, you will always be glad you did.
Kay Thompson (1909–1998) was a singer, dancer, vocal arranger, and coach of many MGM musicals in the 1940s. The Eloise character grew out of the voice of a precocious six-year-old that Miss Thompson put on to amuse her friends. Collaborating with Hilary Knight on what was an immediate bestseller,Kay Thompson became a literary sensation when Eloise was published in 1955. The book has sold more than two million copies to date. Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight created four more Eloise books, 'Eloise in Paris', 'Eloise at Christmas', 'Eloise in Moscow', and 'Eloise Takes a Bawth.'
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