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ELOISE IN MOSCOW
by Thompson, Kay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight wear to spine ends and shallow bump to front lower corner, else about fine, very clean and free of previous owner marking/very good
- Seller
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Slight wear to spine ends and shallow bump to front lower corner, else about fine, very clean and free of previous owner markings of any kind; jacket is lightly with a few shallow tears to edges, slight chipping at jacket spine ends and with light soiling to white portions of jacket. $3.75 jacket price intact on front flap/very good. Original orange boards with title and decorations in black, quarto (7.75 x 11 inches), unpaginated. Illustrations by Hillary Knight throughout printed in yellow and black and with double gatefold at center printed in colors, pictorial endpapers.
Synopsis
Odd Couple Invade Russia and Produce Best-seller When Kay Thompson (with Hilary Knight in tow) swept through Moscow at the height of the Cold War, the Russians didn't know what hit them. No one could have predicted that this small masterpiece would be the result. First published in 1959 and out of print for more than three decades, their fourth book about Eloise is DELICIOUS.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19325
- Title
- ELOISE IN MOSCOW
- Author
- Thompson, Kay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight wear to spine ends and shallow bump to front lower corner, else about fine, very clean and free of previous owner marking
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1959
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Chanticleer Books
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Fort Bragg, California
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Quarto
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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