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First US edition, first printing, of the first Mary Poppins book, originally published in Britain earlier the same year. The dust jacket blurb commences: "If Peter Pan and Alice sat down in Wonderland to write a story for their own amusement, the result might be a book like Mary Poppins". There were seven sequels, published between 1935 and 1988. "The character of Mary Poppins, umbrella and carpetbag in hand, has, for Americans, come to exemplify the typical English nanny, though in Travers's hand she was purposefully unconventional, stern, but also the source of magical adventures" (Grolier, Children's 100). Mary Poppins was adapted by Disney into the musical film of the same title in 1964, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. A sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, was released in 2018, starring Emily Blunt. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in blue, front cover with vignette in blue, pictorial endpapers, top edge purple. With dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by Mary Shepard. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated Xmas 1937. Head and foot of spine bumped, corners a little rubbed, occasional foxing and finger-soiling, colouring to picture on front free endpaper, small section of adhesive paper to rear pastedown not affecting picture; head of unclipped jacket a little worn, minor closed tears to front panel, creases to front flap, spine a little toned: a very good copy in like jacket. See Grolier, Children's 100, 78.

Mary Poppins is a beloved children's book written by P.L. Travers, first published in 1934. The story introduces the mysterious and magical English nanny Mary Poppins, who is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks family's home, where she embarks on a series of fantastical adventures with the Banks children.