Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Literature

THOMPSON, KAY.

Eloise * Eloise in Moscow.

Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated

by Hilary Knight. 4to, publisher’s boards, narrow age-toning to extremities, bottom corners

bumped, occasional small stain; dust jackets, few small chips and tears, dampstaining to first

title most noticeable on verso, tape ghosts to second title; fold-out illustrations creased, sec-

ond title with front flyleaf corner clipped.

FIRST EDITIONS

FIRST PRINTINGS

, first title with

“Lily Daché” on page 50.

NewYork: Simon and Schuster, 1955; 1959

[300/400]

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TRAVERS, P.L.

Mary Poppins Comes Back * Mary Poppins Opens the

Door.

Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated by Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims. 8vo, publisher’s

cloth, inconspicuous soiling to first title; second title with dust jacket, several chips includ-

ing tear to top of front panel with partial loss of several letters, short closed tears, unclipped;

few leaves roughly opened on second title due to production flaw.

NewYork: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1936); (1943)

[800/1,200]

THE SECOND AND THIRD MARY POPPINS TITLES

EACH WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

CHRISTMAS PRESENTATION COPIES

First title a third printing, second title a first edition. Inscribed

to the children of Helene Maurer Ruthling, founder of the Rancho Arroyo school in Tusuque, New

Mexico where Travers’ adopted son, Camillus, was a boarder. Early signed inscriptions byTravers (these

dated 1937 and [19]43, respectively) are quite uncommon.