Complete set of the four original Eloise books: Eloise: a book for precocious grown ups; Eloise in Paris; Eloise at Christmastime; Eloise in Moscow. [together with:] the original 21 inch Eloise doll and packaging.

New York: Simon and Schuster,, 1955–59. 4 works, quarto. Original pictorial cloth or boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jackets. Colour illustrations throughout by Hilary Knight. Eloise with neat stamp (and accession number) of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Research Library on front pastedown; Christmastime with neat presentation inscription; doll in excellent condition and with the original box (Eloise label still intact and the box maker's stamp on the underside). Overall a very good set. First editions, first printings. Presentation copy of Eloise in Paris with lengthy inscription from the author (on page opposite title): "For my darling Fairfax - with a little petite of every thing that's choisie, because because because, you are! Love love love Kay and Moi Eloise xx". Eloise in Moscow is inscribed on the title page by the illustrator: "Hilary Knight Dec 3 95". "When four Eloise dolls adorned the cover of the December 1957 issue of 'Good Housekeeping', Santa Claus was not prepared. No one was. Just before Thanksgiving '57, Simon & Schuster had published the highly anticipated sequel book, Eloise in Paris, but a brand new 21 inch Eloise rag doll was making quite a splash of its own. An ad campaign for Cannon Sheets featured the Eloise doll. Department stores across America were spotlighting the dolls. FAO Schwarz included the Eloise doll in its Christmas '57 mail order catalog. Even the most popular magazine in America, 'Life', weighed-in with a spread showing a little girl surrounded by Eloise dolls, clothes, merchandise, and, most spectacularly two 43 inch, larger-than-life-size dolls that Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight recently joked were 'a little scary'" (Sam Irvin, "The Rawther [sic] Definitive History of the Eloise Doll", Antique Doll Collector, August 2001 - archived by the Kay Thompson website). The doll is remarkably scarce when accompanied by the original packing.