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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1952. Hardcover. Tan illustrated cloth covered boards. Near fine, in good dust wrapper. 235 pages. 19 x 13 cm. One of our favorite children's unconventional character, Mary Poppins, has new adventures to be shared during this sleepy summer's day. Interior clean and crisp, boards heavily sunned. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1943. Reprint Edition. Decorated cloth. Fine/Fine. Mary Shepard. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 3/8"), cinnamon decorative cloth with black lettering on spine & Mary Poppins with her umbrella in black on the front cover, charming frontispiece and 43 B&W drawings, insets, and tailpieces by Mary Shepard & Agnes Sims, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) repeating cover art with Mary P., pictorial endpapers with same depiction, xi-[xii] + 268 pages. Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE born Helen Lyndon Goff; Queenland, 1899 - 1996) was an Australian-born writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins. In 1933, she began writing the novel Mary Poppins, the first of eight Poppins books. Series formed the basis for Walt Disney's famous screen adaptation. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! No remainder markings.

Peter Davies, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. Reprinted. 206 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with red lettering and 'Mary Poppins' motif to front board. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Contains black & white illustrations throughout including endpapers & pastedowns. Noticeable tear & creasing to page 23 text remains readable. Tiny scuffs to edges of pages from 155 through to 162. Minor dog-eared corners. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Mild cracking to rear hinge, slightly exposing netting. Binding remains firm with creasing to paper at gutters. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Noticeable black marks to boards, with small brown stains across the spine. Book is bowed and forward leaning.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Only. Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims. Octavo, 7.75 in. x 5.25 in., pp. xi, [3], 239. First American (wartime) edition, with no frontispiece and price of $1.75 on jacket. Illustrated with many black and white knk drawings. Beige cloth boards with black Mary Poppins design and title to front. Black title to spine. Light shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Top corners lightly nudged. Illustrated endpapers. Dog-ear to page 18. Unmarked interior. Rubbing to dustjacket edges with several small closed tears. Chips to edges; half inch chip to bottom of spine. Protected in mylar. Mary Poppins returns and the kids are off on a new round of marvelous adventures. A visit to Mr. Twigley's music box-filled attic, an encounter with the Marble Boy, a ride on Miss Calico's enchanted candy canes--all part of an average day out with the world's most beloved nanny. The third novel in the Mary Poppins series.

Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Hardcover. Good. . Second printing, stated. SIGNED by Travers on ffep. No jacket. Tanning to spine, some spots of mottling/fading to boards. Endpapers tanned but clean. A few tiny spots of foxing on title and page after, otherwise pages clean. Binding sturdy.

London, Lovat Dickson & Thompson Limited, 1935 1st edition. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Cream cloth with green lettering to spine and pictorial vignette to front. Illustrated endpapers. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW some darkening and handling marks, torn chips to corners and some minor loss to bottom end of spine. Edges rubbed. Not price clipped. In protective sleeve.) Cloth has some handling marks with darkening around edges and some heavy patchy darkening to spine. some dark foxing spots to endpapers. Neat pencil inscription to front. Small spot to tile page near title. Some occasional spots and handling marks to inside pages, one stain to edge of p22 and adjacent pages. Else overall a very good clean and tight 1st edition copy of the sequel to the famous Mary Poppins. 303pp. With 11 full-page b&w illustrations by Mary Shepard, plus many smaller drawings within text.

Gerald Howe Ltd. London. 1934. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). 27 line illustrations by Mary Shepard. One small, faint mark to the title page otherwise a near fine copy which is bright and clean throughout. Publishers yellow cloth with black lettering to the spine and front board, which also has an illustration of Mary Poppins. Illustrated endpapers. In the original illustrated grey dustwrapper which is split in two but is currently held together in a removable wrapper protector. There is some loss to the top and bottom of the spine and a large closed tear to the front panel with a small amount of loss. Small and neat booksellers label (Zeitlin Books of Los Angeles) to the rear pastedown endpaper. Overall a near fine book, with a little bumping to the top of the spine, in a good example of the scarce dustwrapper that is quite clean and more then 95% complete, so could easily be restored to it's former glory. The author's scarce first book, and the first of the eight Mary Poppins books, which… Read More