Travers, P.L.

8vo (186 x 122mm.), FIRST EDITION, illustrations by Mary Shepard, original pictorial yellow cloth, DUST-JACKET TOGETHER WITH PUBLISHER'S WRAP-AROUND ("Recommended by the Junior Book Club..."), spine slightly soiled, extremities of dust-jacket slightly frayed with minor loss to head of spine

In addition to that recorded in the main body of the cataloguing (spine slightly soiled, extremities of dust-jacket slightly frayed with minor loss to head of spine) there is a small tear to the dust-jacket between the lower panel and the spine, and also a small tear and loss to the printed advertising band.
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A FINE COPY of the first Mary Poppins book, published thirty years before the Walt Disney film.