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MARY POPPINS COMES BACK
by TRAVERS, P. L
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
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.
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.
Synopsis
Pulled down from the clouds at the end of a kite string, Mary Poppins is back. In Mary’s care, the Banks children meet the King of the Castle and the Dirty Rascal, visit the upside-down world of Mr. Turvy and his bride, Miss Topsy, and spend a breathless afternoon above the park, dangling from a clutch of balloons.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 361
- Title
- MARY POPPINS COMES BACK
- Author
- TRAVERS, P. L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Magical governess
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Wind Books LLC
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New Haven, Connecticut
About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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