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  "For my darling Hilary - My God ---- Can you even believe it --- Isn't it wonderful - Oh Hilary - I love you Kay and Me Eloize": First Edition, Association Copy of Eloise; warmly Inscribed by author Kay Thompson to Illustrator Hilary Knight

  THOMPSON, Kay. Illustrated by Hilary Knight.

  Eloise: A Book For Precocious Grown Ups.

  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.

  First edition of the sensational first book in Kay Thompson's immensely popular Eloise series. Quarto, original publisher's cream pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with drawings by Hilary Knight. Association copy, inscribed by the author, Kay Thompson, to the book's illustrator, Hilary Knight on the front free endpaper, "For my darling Hilary - My God ---- Can you even believe it --- Isn't it wonderful - Oh Hilary - I love you Kay and Me Eloize." In an interview with Sam Irvin, the recipient, American artist and illustrator Hilary Knight declared, "Eloise never would have happened as a book had it not been for D.D. Ryan badgering Kay and putting us together." Kay Thompson first created the character Eloise as a child, later using the persona to entertain friends. D.D. Ryan, a junior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and Thompson’s friend, saw potential for a book adaptation, especially if the right illustrator was found. Ryan, who was neighbors with Knight, frequently received his drawings, one of which featured "a fat little prissy pretty girl with frizzy blonde corkscrews" that caught her attention. She arranged for the two to meet in December 1954, where Thompson was intrigued by Knight’s drawing: "The prissy one Kay would call Dorothy Darling," Knight expl...

  Price: $28,500.00     Item Number: 149560

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