Mary Poppins. Travers, P. L.

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.