THOMPSON, Eloise; Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Eloise In Moscow.
"They were expecting me and this freezing wind was blowing and this now was flying in this blizzard!": First Edition of Kay Thompson's Eloise in Moscow
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
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First edition of the fourth book in the author's beloved Eloise series. Thin quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with drawings by Hilary Knight. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
The fourth book in Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise series. After a three-week stay in Moscow with her colleague Hilary Knight, Kay Thompson had plenty of fodder for her distinctly Eloisian travelogue: the food ("It is difficult to know what to eat in Moscow/ There is no melon in season/ Nichevo"); the stilted English of their tour guide ("That house is Chekhov/ That house is Stanislavsky if you want to see it/ No you cannot it is reconstruction"); national security ("Our telephone had quite a bit of static/ so we talked about General de Gaulle/ to throw them off track/ Everybody listens to everything in Moscow."
Eloise In Moscow.
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