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Including The Original Eloise and a new, color Eloise Scrapbook with rare photos and drawings from the files of Hilary Knight. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner and colorful comments by Me, Eloise. (New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers: Copyright 1999) First Edition. ISBN 0 689 82703 2. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 65, i, 18 (283 x 200 mm). Illustrated by Hilary Knight. First Edition. A very good cancelled ex-library copy in like dust-jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition of the essential edition of Eloise. Slim quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated in the year of publication by illustrator Hilary Knight. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.

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