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P.L. Travers – Mary Poppins – First US Edition 1934
£3,750.00
First US edition, first printing of ‘Mary Poppins’. Published by Reynal & Hitchcock in New York, 1934. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, profusely illustrated by the daughter of E.H. Shepard, Mary, is in very good condition. There are some mild creases to the edges and at the spine tips. It has been price clipped. There is a small closed tear to the front panel, which has been internally repaired. There are chips to the rear panel and spine tips. The spine is slightly toned. The boards are in very good condition with one neat inscription to the front endpaper. Full rich red topstain to the top edge. They are free from foxing. Overall, this is a very good copy of the scarce red-cover of this title. A rare copy.
The first title in the Mary Poppins series. The books centre on the magical English nanny Mary Poppins, who is blown by the East wind to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks’ household to care for their children. Encounters with pavement-painters and shopkeepers, and various adventures ensue, until Mary Poppins abruptly leaves, i.e., “pops out”. Only the first three of the eight books feature Mary Poppins arriving and leaving. The later five books recount previously unrecorded adventures from her original three visits. As Travers explains in her introduction to Mary Poppins in the Park, “She cannot forever arrive and depart.”
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First US edition, first printing of ‘Mary Poppins’. Published by Reynal & Hitchcock in New York, 1934. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, profusely illustrated by the daughter of E.H. Shepard, Mary, is in very good condition. There are some mild creases to the edges and at the spine tips. It has been price clipped. There is a small closed tear to the front panel, which has been internally repaired. There are chips to the rear panel and spine tips. The spine is slightly toned. The boards are in very good condition with one neat inscription to the front endpaper. Full rich red topstain to the top edge. They are free from foxing. Overall, this is a very good copy of the scarce red-cover of this title. A rare copy.
The first title in the Mary Poppins series. The books centre on the magical English nanny Mary Poppins, who is blown by the East wind to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks’ household to care for their children. Encounters with pavement-painters and shopkeepers, and various adventures ensue, until Mary Poppins abruptly leaves, i.e., “pops out”. Only the first three of the eight books feature Mary Poppins arriving and leaving. The later five books recount previously unrecorded adventures from her original three visits. As Travers explains in her introduction to Mary Poppins in the Park, “She cannot forever arrive and depart.”
