Mary Poppins Opens the Door. Illustrated by Mary Sheppard and Anges Sims. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition. Publisher’s pictorial grey cloth boards in original dust jacket. Head of jacket spine chipped with loss, otherwise a nice bright copy.

The famous fantasy-adventure of a flying nanny (a la “Peter Pan”), illustrated by the daughter of Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator of the “Pooh” books).

The Mary Poppins series of books is by Australian author Pamela Travers (1899-1996) and features the magical British nanny and her adventures.