Mary Poppins Opens the Door. Illustrated by Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims. de Travers, P. L. (Pamela L.). Shepard, Mary & Agnes Sims, illustrators

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1943. Reprint Edition. Decorated cloth. Fine/Fine. Mary Shepard. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 3/8"), cinnamon decorative cloth with black lettering on spine & Mary Poppins with her umbrella in black on the front cover, charming frontispiece and 43 B&W drawings, insets, and tailpieces by Mary Shepard & Agnes Sims, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) repeating cover art with Mary P., pictorial endpapers with same depiction, xi-[xii] + 268 pages. Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE born Helen Lyndon Goff; Queenland, 1899 - 1996) was an Australian-born writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins. In 1933, she began writing the novel Mary Poppins, the first of eight Poppins books. Series formed the basis for Walt Disney's famous screen adaptation. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! No remainder markings.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Only. Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims. Octavo, 7.75 in. x 5.25 in., pp. xi, [3], 239. First American (wartime) edition, with no frontispiece and price of $1.75 on jacket. Illustrated with many black and white knk drawings. Beige cloth boards with black Mary Poppins design and title to front. Black title to spine. Light shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Top corners lightly nudged. Illustrated endpapers. Dog-ear to page 18. Unmarked interior. Rubbing to dustjacket edges with several small closed tears. Chips to edges; half inch chip to bottom of spine. Protected in mylar. Mary Poppins returns and the kids are off on a new round of marvelous adventures. A visit to Mr. Twigley's music box-filled attic, an encounter with the Marble Boy, a ride on Miss Calico's enchanted candy canes--all part of an average day out with the world's most beloved nanny. The third novel in the Mary Poppins series.

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.