Mary Poppins
by P.L. Travers
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Reynal & Hitchcock. First American Edition. First Printing with no printings listed. Lacking Dust Jacket. Illustrated with 27 line cuts (13 full-page) and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard. Original blue cloth with darker blue blind stamped title and design on front cover and spine. Sun spots to cover. Pictorial endpapers. Prior owner signature on ffep. Five original contemporary reviews tipped in: (1) New York Herald Tribune review by its literary editor, Mary Lamberton Becker on the verso of the ffep, (2) NY Herald Evening Post on the dedication page, (3) the New York Times' Books of the Times by its Editor, John Chamberlain; (4) Herald Tribune article about John Mortimer writing a Mary Poppins Suite, and (5) NY Herald Tribune Books & Things review by Book Critic, Lewis Gannett, himself author of Cry, the Beloved Country on the rfep, which causes some toning to the tipped in and opposing pages from the newspaper age toning. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1934.
Synopsis
Written by P.L. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard, Mary Poppins tells the tale of a magical English nanny who pops into Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane to care for the Banks children, carried by her umbrella along the east wind. At the end of the story, after many fantastical adventures with their stern governess, Poppins ‘pops’ out again on the West wind. The first in this series of eight books, Mary Poppins was published in 1934, and the seven subsequent novels that followed were published all the way through 1988. In 1964 Disney made a movie composed out of the first four of the books of the series, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. P.L. Travers wrote eight books, as well as several other books for children and adults. Her writing was not limited to novels, as she also served as a drama critic, travel essayist, reviewer and lecturer in her career. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014650
- Title
- Mary Poppins
- Author
- P.L. Travers
- Illustrator
- Mary Shepard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Reynal & Hitchcock
- Date Published
- 1934
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About the Seller
J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints
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Garrison, New York
About J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints
We are a 50 year old, third generation antiquarian bookshop nestled in the bucolic Hudson Highlands of New York's historic Hudson Valley, less than a mile from a transverse of the Appalachian Trail. While we have strong first edition literature and poetry collections, we specialize in New York, history, and Americana. We are a proud member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
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- Verso
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
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