Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
First American edition, first printing of Travers' children's classic, the first of eight books in the Poppins series and basis for numerous adaptations, most famously Walt Disney's award winning 1964 musical starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Illustrated by Mary Shepard.
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1934. Publisher's original blue cloth, stamped in blue, illustrated endpapers, lacking the scarce dust jacket; pp. xii, 206. A very good copy. Binding sturdy, light shelfwear and rubbing to boards with minor soiling. Owner's inscription and a couple stickers removed from flyleaf, else internally quite clean. Protected in a removable archival jacket.