*Childrens’ Books: What’s Old is our feature where we highlight stuff from our catalogue that you may have missed. Last year we had in a reasonable quantity of ‘Blitz Books’, which proved highly popular and were all snapped up very quickly, with the strange exception of three of them. ‘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 (although there is some staple rust on these). Three from the unnumbered Tuck’s Better Little Books series, illustrated text stories with colourful, evocative covers.
PICTURED:
BIG BOY’S BOW VG £6
THE KILLER OF CARRICKBURN VG £6
TRUE SON VG £6