MARY POPPINS COMES BACK by TRAVERS, P. L - 1952

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Salmon cloth, decorated and stamped in black. Frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. Black and white line drawings on covers, frontispiece, endpapers, and throughout the text by Mary Shepard. Minor shelf wear near toe of spine edge, else very good in a good dust jacket with some rubbing to tips and crown of spine.

Reissue of the 1935 publication, perhaps to make available the entire oeuvre to date of four publications in this series. Harcourt has not shared exactly when this book was reissued, but it is certainly before 1960 when Harcourt changed its name yet again, and after 1948 when they acquired Reynal & Hitchcock, the name on the lower spine of the dust jacket. The upper turn in of the dust jacket has both Reynal & Hitchcock and Harcourt, Brace and Company listed just to make things extra spicy. Let's all convene on Cherry-Tree Lane with the Banks children and await Mary Poppins' return. Perhaps she can sort out this conundrum.