Books

7.5"x 5", yellow cloth, black decoration to upper board, black titles to spine, decorative eps, pp. (i-viii) ix-xii, 1-206, illustrated by Mary Shepard. No dw. 1934 first edition, very good, bottom corners worn, small closed splits to cloth of backstrip bottom, covers smudged, previous owner's name & address on ffep, and on rear flyleaf, with the note: "We like this book very much, so please don't keep it".

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.