NMLP P-038852 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Eloise

Kay Thompson (illustrated by Hilary Knight) · Simon and Schuster (New York) · 1955

The census claim that Simon & Schuster, New York, 1955 is the true first is upheld; Eloise is an American book by an American author and illustrator, and the US edition is the collected one. The census's further claim that 'early printings differ in jacket subtitle text' is NOT supported by any source consulted and should not be relied on - it appears to be a garbling of the genuine page-50 Lily Dache / Coco Chanel text point, which is the real early-printing variant. No UK first-edition details were confirmed in this pass, and no source consulted treats a UK issue as collected alongside the American first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038852 for "Eloise" by Kay Thompson (illustrated by Hilary Knight) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038852, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).