Books

Marry Poppins Comes Back. Signed by P.L. Travers on frontfly. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. 1936, First American edition, third printing. Book in good condition with original dust jacket. Unclipped yellow and blue dust-jackets printed in black. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Mary Shepard. 8vos. Several losses and tears to jacket, mainly at edges and ends, otherwise a sturdy, attractive copy of this famous classic.

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.