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First American edition (no subsequent printings mentioned on copyright page). Very good in good supplied later state jacket with $2.50 price on flap. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, jacket spine faded, small bookseller plate on rear endpaper. 1934 Hard Cover. xii, 206 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth with darker blue titles, red top edge. Pictorial endpapers, frontis, and sketches throughout by Mary Shepard. The story that inspired the motion picture of the same name starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.

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.