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MARY POPPINS OPENS THE DOOR
by Travers, P.L
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims. 1st edition, 1st printing, 1943. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 239 pp., with Shepard and Sims charming illustrations. Bound in publishers blue cloth with blue illustrated dust jacket, price clipped. No additional printings or codes listed on copyright page. Jacket is rubbed along edges, tips and spine. With small chips at top of spine. Cloth is slightly faded along edges. Previous owners inscription opposite half title page, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. When Mary last left the Banks children in Cherry Tree Lane, she took a "return ticket, just in case". In the third book, she returns to the park in front of Cherry Tree Lane the way she came, falling with fireworks. Once again she takes up nanny duties in the Banks household and leads Jane, Michael, the toddler twins John and Barbara (as well as the new baby girl Annabel) on various magical adventures.
Synopsis
Mary Poppins returns, falling from the sky like a shooting star! Soon Mary 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31048
- Title
- MARY POPPINS OPENS THE DOOR
- Author
- Travers, P.L
- Illustrator
- Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
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About the Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
Antiquarian bookseller, with over 15 years experience.
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