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Amazon UK has four of these in stock.

I've never heard of a 'Board book' - perhaps someone here knows what these are?

“Board books” normally refer to those sort of play-books which are printed on really thick card, often have a single illustration per page (“A cow”, “A duck”, etc.) and are given to babies and young children; as these are often about that size, and tend to come with a cloth spine, that someone has looked at the description (small form-factor, cloth-spined, picture book, for children…), and mis-construed the situation.

Unless it is a sort of dummy of the book, and is in fact meant for babies and young children…?

But good catch, and interesting to see.

Update: Putting “Tintin” and “(board book)” into the Amazon search actually brings up 32 books, and while I didn’t look through them all, the term appears to have been attached to albums of all sizes, so I don’t know what was going on the day they went on the system… I suppose it might have something to do with them being books with printed coloured covers, rather than a dust jacket, but it does seem a bit random…

Actually the cover is that of "King Ottokar's Sceptre" the way that it was published in book form in 1938. Herge later redrew it into the version that we know today.

"Board book" appears to be some kind of alternative way of describing a "hardback". Mini may suggest that it is half the size of the standard book edition.

Yes, that’s what I thought; the B&W albums have come out in even smaller sized volumes before, and individual half-sized versions of all the other modern books are available in France, so a small run of the facsimiles would make sense.