*Childrens’ Books: A further update from this quirky sidebar in publishing history this week. ‘Blitz Books’ is a generic name for various publishers’ series of miniature books (approx 8.5 x 12 cm, around 16 pages, and published 1940-1944), these booklets helped distract children in air-raid shelters and Underground stations during bombing raids over London. They became known as ‘Blitz Books’, and, like many publications from the years of World War II, are quite scarce, particularly in as nice condition as the examples we have here. Six from the Little Marvels Series, illustrated text stories with colourful, evocative covers. None of these have ever passed through our hands before.
PICTURED: BLITZ BOOKS: LITTLE MARVELS ALL SOLD
#17 BOMBS ON BERCHTESGADEN VG/FN £7
#18 ACE V ACE FN £8
#21 SCOUTS OF DOOM FN £8
#33 THE MAN WITH THREE EYES FN £8
#39 THE RECAPTURE OF SINGAPORE VG/FN £7
#41 FORCED LANDING VG/FN £7