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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Salmon cloth, decorated and stamped in black. Frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. Black and white line drawings on covers, frontispiece, endpapers, and throughout the text by Mary Shepard. Minor shelf wear near toe of spine edge, else very good in a good dust jacket with some rubbing to tips and crown of spine. Reissue of the 1935 publication, perhaps to make available the entire oeuvre to date of four publications in this series. Harcourt has not shared exactly when this book was reissued, but it is certainly before 1960 when Harcourt changed its name yet again, and after 1948 when they acquired Reynal & Hitchcock, the name on the lower spine of the dust jacket. The upper turn in of the dust jacket has both Reynal & Hitchcock and Harcourt, Brace and Company listed just to make things extra spicy. Let's all convene on Cherry-Tree Lane with the Banks children and await Mary Poppins' return. Perhaps she can sort out this conundrum.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd, 1954. First edition. Green cloth, gilt spine. Frontispiece. 126,[2] pp. Eight black & white plates illustrate the text. Dust jacket design by Patricia Lambe. Pinhole where a staple formerly resided on the first free endsheet, else very good and unmarked, in an [apparently] scarce price clipped dust jacket with small chips and a minor loss at the toe of the spine. Bookplate of the noted Bloomsbury/Hogarth Press collector William Beekman affixed to front pastedown.  First edition. Susan Lady Tweedsmuir reminisces about her life, times, friends, and changing fashions in clothes. Of particular interest is in her Part II, Portraits, "Letter to Elizabeth Bowen about Virginia Woolf May-September 1952," p. 77,in which she relates her memories of meeting Woolf in her childhood, and subsequent visits and dinners throughout her life. Woolf's last letter written to a friend before her death was sent to Lady Tweedsmuir on 21[?] March 1941.