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New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934. First American edition of this children's classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 27 line cuts (13 full-page) and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by P.L. Travers on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.

1974-1993. Best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, Australian-born British writer Pamela Lyndon Travers gained a reputation for her stubborn and reclusive nature. Travers insisted on acting as an adviser in Walt Disney's musical film adaptation of Mary Poppins and strongly disapproved of the final product, particularly the use of animation in the film. She received no invitation to the film's star-studded premiere and refused to allow any further adaptations of the series. The film Saving Mr. Banks was produced in 2013, offering a dramatized retelling of the working process during the planning of Mary Poppins starring Emma Thompson as P. L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock , 1934. First US edition, first printing. Published by Reynal & Hitchcock in New York, 1934. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, profusely illustrated by the daughter of E.H. Shepard, Mary, is highly presentable. There are some mild creases to the edges and at the spine tips. It has not been price clipped, showing the original $1.50 net price - rear flap has been clipped. There is a small closed tear to the front panel, which has been internally repaired, as has a minor chip to the top of the rear panel. The spine is slightly toned. The boards, with the frontal motif of the title character, are so slightly bowed, though do not lean when standing. The corners are markedly sharp, though the front (top) right-hand is bumped. The spine tips are also slightly bumped, the tail notably so. The hinges are tight and intact. The front fly is slightly toned, as are further preliminaries. There is a small previous owner's inscription to the front endpaper. The… Read More

[1959]. Best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, Australian-born British writer Pamela Lyndon Travers gained a reputation for her stubborn and reclusive nature. Travers insisted on acting as an adviser in Walt Disney's musical film adaptation of Mary Poppins and strongly disapproved of the final product, particularly the use of animation in the film. She received no invitation to the film's star-studded premiere and refused to allow any further adaptations of the series. The film Saving Mr. Banks was produced in 2013, offering a dramatized retelling of the working process during the planning of Mary Poppins starring Emma Thompson as P. L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney.

London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Ltd., 1935. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth blocked in green, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. Some marginal soiling to pp.80-81 else contents clean, jacket with a couple of small chips/nicks to extremities, spine a little toned. An attractive copy. Scarce in wrapper, particularly so in nice state. The second adventure for the magical English nanny Mary Poppins, one of the most beloved characters in children's literature. The enchanting illustrations are by Mary Shepard (1909-2000), daughter of the famous book artist E.H. Shepard.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934. First American edition of this children's classic. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition, bookplate. An exceptional example.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941. First edition of this classic work, a fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "K. Jean Bourne, P.L. Travers 6 December '41." With drawings by Gertrude Hermes. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with reinforcement to the verso. Rare and desirable signed.

Walt Disney Productions, 1964. Rare original LP of the Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack, boldly signed by Julie Andrews on the front panel. In near fine condition.

The First UK Printing of this omnibus edition published by Peter Davies, London in 1940. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Light pushing at the spine ends. Red lettering to the boards remains bright. Light toning and dustiness to the text-block but the pages remain very clean. A neat previous owner's name and date to the upper front end-paper. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Some loss at the upper spine end and corners. A 4cm closed tear to rear upper spine fold. Some toning to the folds with a little light marking to the covers in places. A small amount of tape reinforcement to the verso which does not show through to the front. The wrapper remains very attractive in the removable Brodart archival cover. The first omnibus edition of the first two 'Mary Poppins' titles wonderfully illustrated throughout by Mary Shepard. A very scarce title with its original wrapper. Collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1934. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the classic 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Very Good in an about Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Slight lean, with boards lightly foxed and a contemporary gift inscription on the front endpaper. Jacket chipped at the corners and spine ends, with front flap fold starting, and spine evenly faded.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1st edition [only printing], 1940. Hardcover. Good. Illustrations by Mary Shepard printed in red.. LIMITED TO 1000 copies privately printed for the friends of the Author and her publishers as a New Year's Greeting. Octavo black cloth-spined red boards with silver stars and red printed title label to cover and silver titled to spine (edges rubbed/corners worn/1.7cm of sunning to front board) 29pp. Printed in black with red initial letter to each chapter and title on titlepage. All illustrations except for one on the title are printed in red. No inscriptions, pencil marks, creases or loose pages. Crisp and bright inside with endpapers matching the boards with silver stars. Page fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed as issued. *A Mary Poppins story where the Banks children have adventures with fairy tale characters. No copies for sale since the Bauman Rare Books copy was sold. This book is illustrated by Mary Shepard, the daughter of the Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator, E. H.… Read More

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Shepard, Mary. First American edition (no subsequent printings mentioned on copyright page). Very good in good supplied later state jacket with $2.50 price on flap. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, jacket spine faded, small bookseller plate on rear endpaper. 1934 Hard Cover. xii, 206 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth with darker blue titles, red top edge. Pictorial endpapers, frontis, and sketches throughout by Mary Shepard. The story that inspired the motion picture of the same name starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.

Harcourt Brace & World, 1952. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. tall case. Inscribed by the author on the first blank page. No print date, but circa 1961. Front cover discolored along bottom edge. Dust jacket edgeworn.

G/G. Jacket in mylar. price clip, browning to hinging on endpapers. Assumed first Harcourt edition as there are no additional printings listed or date codes but I am not sure

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Disney Enterprises, Inc., 2018. First edition, early printing of the deluxe novelization of the 2018 American musical fantasy film starring Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with color photographs from the film. Signed by Angela Lansbury opposite the title page. Lansbury played played the role of the Balloon Lady, a kindly old woman who sells balloons at the park. The part was written to be a cameo role for Julie Andrews who portrayed Mary Poppins in the original film, but she turned the role down as she felt her presence would unfairly take attention away from Emily Blunt. In fine condition. Rare signed. Based on the book series Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins Returns debuted in 2018 as a live-action and traditionally animated sequel to the classic 1964 film Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. The film stars Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins, with supporting roles from Lin-Manuel… Read More

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935. First Edition, Signed by P.L. Travers on the front illustrated free-fly.. With illustrated endpapers, frontispiece and 43 whimsical black and white drawings by Mary Shepard. 8vo, in the original publisher's green cloth, lettered in blue on the spine and pictorially decorated and titled in black on the upper cover with a picture of Mary Poppins herself. xi, 268 pp. A very good and handsome copy with mild overall soil to the cover. The papers are a bit mellowed and there is evidence of old damp to a 1/8 inch strip along the upper edge of most pages. THE SECOND OF EIGHT BOOKS IN THE MARY POPPINS SERIES, FIRST EDITION AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Sure to delight readers of all ages, the book is brimful of magic.

New York: Book of the Month Club, 2000. Hardcover. New/New. Mary Shephard. A nice set of the first four "Mary Poppins" books P.L. Travers wrote, between 1934 and 1952. These were re-published by the Book of the Month Club in 2000 as reproductions of the original editions, complete with the illustrations by Mary Shepherd, who did the pen-and-ink illustrations for all eight of the original books. (And when we say these are "reproductions," that means the first book includes the "Bad Tuesday" chapter as it was originally published. In that chapter, Mary Poppins produces a magical compass that takes the children to the four corners of the earth, where they meet people from representative cultures. But for Travers, "representative" meant stereotypes that produced controversy even when the book was published in 1934! She rewrote the chapter twice over the years to respond to criticism, and Shepherd changed her pictures, but be aware that this edition contains the original versions of both words and… Read More

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.

Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Hardcover. Good. . Second printing, stated. SIGNED by Travers on ffep. No jacket. Tanning to spine, some spots of mottling/fading to boards. Endpapers tanned but clean. A few tiny spots of foxing on title and page after, otherwise pages clean. Binding sturdy.

NY: High Grade Press, 1944. Book. VG-. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Softcover with marginal chips and soiling thus very good minus. Limited edition of 500 copies this being #432 and signed by Travers on the title page. Printed as a Christmas gift and is exceedingly scarce. .