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Mary Poppins.
by TRAVERS, P. L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,, 1934. Mary Poppins... you'll never leave us, will you? First US edition, first printing, of the first Mary Poppins book, originally published in the UK in the same year. The dust jacket blurb commences "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". Mary Poppins was adapted by Disney into the musical film of the same title in 1964, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. A sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, was released in 2018, starring Emily Blunt. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in blue, front cover with illustration vignette in dark blue, pictorial endpapers, top edge purple. With dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by Mary Shepard. Contemporary ownership inscription dated March 1935 to front free endpaper. Binding with some foxing and a little rubbed at extremities, some light consistent browning to leaves, minor splitting to hinges; extremities of unclipped jacket a little worn with minor loss and tears, slightly toned: a very good copy in like jacket.
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
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171682
- Title
- Mary Poppins.
- Author
- TRAVERS, P. L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,
- Date Published
- 1934
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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