It’s not Eloise! It’s Miss Pooky Peckinpaugh’s boyfriend slam book in verse, arranged by alphabet. “P/PETER is POMPOUS/he is so pompous I could perish he’s so pompous/he is possessed/with this purple portfolio/of/PICTURES of PETER…” Riff on a young woman’s little black book by Kay Thompson, the author of Eloise Lives at the Plaza. A fantastically fun book.

First edition. Hardback. 28.5 x 20 cm. White cards have slight bumping, almost fine. Dust jacket has creases on top margin and intact tear. Small chip on bottom margin. Very good book in very good jacket.

Harper & Row, 1970.