Mary Poppins. Illustrated by Mary Shepard. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934. First American Edition. Pp, 206. A nice bright copy in blue cloth covers, with illustration to front cover and illustrated endpapers

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

The first book in the popular Mary Poppins Series.

Pamela Lyndon Travers spent a number of years living in Dublin, her adopted son was Irish, Camillus Travers Hone. He was the grandchild of Joseph Hone, W. B. Yeats’ first biographer.