Boo-Boo the barrage balloon
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.
Place of publication: [London]
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Juvenile fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Balloons -- Juvenile fiction
First sentence: Once upon a time Professors Flip, Flap, and Pumblechook were wandering around the Zoo.
When looking at the elephant they thought how splendid it would be if they could make something like him to guard the skies
Notes: "Fine art publishers to Their Majesties, The King and Queen, and to Her Majesty Queen Mary. Printed in England. Copyright."

Title page illustated in color, cover p. [2] and [3] illustrated in black and white with final line of text on cover p. [3]

A war-time picture book printed in England for the English market

Bound in color pictorial boards, upper and lower covers identical

Copy in Bodleian Library used for UMI microfiche has [20] p. and inscription dated 1943; Holsinger lists a copy with [22] p. and a 1944 publication date

Holsinger, M. Paul  The ways of war, p. 467, no. 8

King Collection copy possibly incomplete; story goes from birth of the twins to Boo-Boo causing the crash of an enemy plane, [12] pages present
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