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First US edition, first printing, of the first Mary Poppins book, originally published in the UK in the same year. This edition is more commonly found in a blue and white dust jacket which matches the blue cloth of the binding. This copy features the purple and white dust jacket, which matches the colour of the top edge. "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" (blurb). The Mary Poppins series would eventually number eight titles. The Disney film was released in 1964, with a sequel in 2018. A musical adaptation was first performed in 2004. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark blue, front cover with vignette in dark blue, pictorial endpapers, top edge purple. With purple dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by Mary Shepard. Extremities a little rubbed, head and foot of spine bumped, minor staining to front free endpaper and top edge; minor loss to head of jacket spine, closed tears to rear panel, some staining to reverse of unclipped jacket: a very good copy in like jacket. .

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.