New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Book spine slightly cocked and boards with minor soiling, but clean and unmarked internally. Price-clipped dust jacket is bright and pleasing, with spine just a bit toned. A handsome copy of a charming book.

A classic work of children's literature, featuring the precocious and adventurous Eloise. A six-year-old girl living among adults at the Plaza Hotel, Thompson's heroine is "not yet pretty but she is already a Person. Henry James would want to study her. Queen Victoria would recognize her as an Equal...she is interested in People when they are not boring." So iconic that a portrait of her hangs in the Plaza Hotel dining room, Eloise has inspired children for three generations (with many more to come!). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Item #6789)