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Simon and Schuster. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket 3rd printing. Spine cover missing.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Stated First Printing; 4to.; red covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; color illustrations; bottom edge of boards are sunned else very good in a poor torn, sunned and chipped dust jacket with the jacket completely torn at spine.

Simon & Schuster, 1957, 1957-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Simon and Schuster; New York, 1957. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Good, blue binding with silver lettering and black illustration on front board, silver and black lettering on spine, binding solid and sturdy, fading/discoloration along edges, abrasions to board corners, tear and loss to spine tips/tops, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns, soiled spots to majority of the pages, some sunning to pages, scattered foxing to text block edges, some shelf wear, in a Good, sunning and foxing to panels/flaps/spine and verso, neatly clipped front flap, soiled spot rear flap, heavy soiled spots rear panel, 3 inch tear top corner front panel, chipped bottom front panel corner, chipped spine, small chips to rear panel corners, moderate edge wear with few small tears, creases bottom front panel near spine, Dust wrapper. 4to[quarto or approx. 9.5 x 12 inches], 62pp., color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery… Read More

Simon and Schuster. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Second Printing. 2nd printing, book in fine condition, DJ in good.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is As New, crisp and clean throughout, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with original price of $3.50 on front flap, light tanning at spine, and "bouquets" on the back from celebrities of the day including Noel Coward, Bennett Cerf, and Cornelia Otis Skinner. This is a followup to "Eloise" [at the Plaza} published two years earlier and then in its "143rd thousand" printing. Illustrated throughout with Hilary Knight's energetic drawings. 4to. Unpaginated. In protective Mylar.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition, later printings of the first three books in Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise series. Quartos, 3 volumes, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Each volume signed by illustrator Hilary Knight. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jackets. American author, singer, and actress Kay Thompson began her career in the early 1930s as a choral director for radio and went on to become MGM Studios' top vocal arranger and coach to such stars as Judy Garland, Lena Horne, and Frank Sinatra. A resident of The Plaza Hotel in New York City, she became most notable for authoring the Eloise series of children's books, rumored to be inspired by the capers of her goddaughter, Liza Minnelli, daughter of personal friend Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. Thomspon collaborated with American illustrator Hilary Knight to create the whimsical black, pink, and white theme that became a trademark of the illustrated series. All four books in the original series were… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc, 1957. First edition of the second book in Kay Thompson's cherished Eloise series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout by Hilary Knight. Signed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper, "Hilary Knight and ME! ELOISE." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Eloise in Paris was first published in 1957, the second of the Eloise quartet, and an immediate bestseller. Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight traveled to Paris to research the book, and the illustrations are dotted with the celebrities they knew there: Richard Avedon takes Eloise's passport photograph; Christian Dior prods her tummy, while his young assistant, Yves Saint Laurent, looks on; Lena Horne sits at an outdoor cafe.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955-1958. American author, singer, and actress Kay Thompson began her career in the early 1930s as a choral director for radio and went on to become MGM Studios' top vocal arranger and coach to such stars as Judy Garland, Lena Horne, and Frank Sinatra. A resident of The Plaza Hotel in New York City, she became most notable for authoring the Eloise series of children's books, rumored to be inspired by the capers of her goddaughter, Liza Minnelli, daughter of personal friend Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. Thomspon collaborated with American illustrator Hilary Knight to create the whimsical black, pink, and white theme that became a trademark of the illustrated series. All four books in the original series were bestsellers upon release, adapted into television projects, and a fifth installment, Eloise Takes a Bawth, was published posthumously from Thompson's original manuscripts. The series became so synonymous with The Plaza that an honorary… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955-1959. First editions of the four classic books in Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise series. Quarto, four volumes, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Hilary Knight. Each volume is near fine in a very good to near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by Asprey. An exceptional set. American author, singer, and actress Kay Thompson began her career in the early 1930s as a choral director for radio and went on to become MGM Studios' top vocal arranger and coach to such stars as Judy Garland, Lena Horne, and Frank Sinatra. A resident of The Plaza Hotel in New York City, she became most notable for authoring the Eloise series of children's books, rumored to be inspired by the capers of her goddaughter, Liza Minnelli, daughter of personal friend Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. Thomspon collaborated with American illustrator Hilary Knight to create the whimsical black, pink, and white theme that became a… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955-2002. First editions of each of the five Eloise titles. Quarto, 5 volumes. Each are signed by the illustrator, Hilary Knight. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. A brilliant set of this timeless classic.