Librería:
Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, Reino Unido
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Vendedor de AbeBooks desde 16 de febrero de 2016
Undated, wartime. Uninscribed. Faint creases to a few corners. Foxing around the edges of the cardboard covers. N° de ref. del artículo 9002
Título: Boo-Boo the barrage balloon
Editorial: Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Condición: Good
Edición: 1st Edition
Librería: Rose City Books, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Stiff Boards. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Color-illustrated cover. Some creases to the cover with a few small wear marks and a small owner name/1944 date. Shaken binding with loose pages. About 8 3/8 x 11with sixteen unnumbered pages. Rare in fair condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Oblong. Book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 111031991
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Good +. C. 1944. Pages have light tanning to edges of pages throughout, creasing to top corner of first few pages, and light soiling and ink transfer onto title page from facing page. Binding is sound, staples attached and intact but covers are beggining to peel back revealing coardboard underneath particularly at rear cover. Text block has light scuffing to lower edge. Covers have slight warping to fore edge possibly from exposure to moisture, creasing and curling to corners, heavy rubbing to ends of spine with creasing and slight warping to tail of spine and where cover meet tail. Light rubbing to edges. Nº de ref. del artículo: 66774
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Pictorial Card Covers. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Uncredited Ilustrador. First And Only Edition. Circa 1944. Color printed card covers with edge and spine wear, cover soil and writing impressions to cover, light reading wear. A strange children's book about a family of elephant-inspired barrage balloons that defend England from air attack. Illustrated in color on nearly every page. Scarce. Size: Oblong 4to. Nº de ref. del artículo: 010624
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: Tom W. Ayling, Wallingford, Reino Unido
First edition. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated throughout. A fine, bright copy. A rare Second World War period children's book. It is undated, and no author or illustrator is mentioned, but the British Library catalogue dates it as 1944. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2237
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Librería: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Near Fine. Not Stated Ilustrador. First edition. The first editition of this very scarce World War II era children's picture book, about an anthropomorphic barrage balloon guarding the British skies. The first edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with sixteen pages, illustrated in colour. Collated, complete.In this wonderful work, scientists visiting a zoo are inspired by the elephant enclosure, and create a barrage balloon in the elephant's image. Boo-Boo is created, and marries another barrage balloon, Belinda. Together they protect the British skies against enemy aeroplanes, keeping the people of the land safe.Undated; dated 1943 via Jisc.A fascinating Second World War work, published in order to comfort child readers. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Minor light handling marks to board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 884F5
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