NMLP P-038849 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Eloise

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

The decisive first-state text point is on page 50, where Eloise says her mother knows Lily Dache; in subsequent printings the name was changed to Coco Chanel, so a copy reading 'Coco Chanel' at page 50 is not a first printing whatever its copyright page says

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038849 for "Eloise" by Kay Thompson (illustrated by Hilary Knight) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038849, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).