Books Update: Blitz Books: Mighty Midgets
*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, usually around 16-32 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. Three from the Mighty Midgets Series, illustrated text stories with colourful, evocative covers. None of these have ever passed through our hands before.
PICTURED: ALL SOLD
#50 AXIS PIRATES VG/FN £7
#51 MOON MONSTER FN £8
#59 THE HUMAN TORPEDO FN/VF £9