ELOISE

by Kay Thompson, Hilary Knight

$1,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First printing. First edition of the first Eloise book, gleefully conceived by a true eccentric, the kind of woman who could waltz through ballrooms and turn every head NPR . Very good. Item #31761 ELOISE was not originally targeted to children, despite its 6-year-old heroine and picture book format. This first edition was instead marketed as a

• Printing: first

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