Tintin - Hachette - Set of 34 booklets/2010

Complete Tintin collection (34 booklets) + rare printing errors
Title:
Tintin – Complete collection of 34 booklets + booklet No. 5 with error + corrected booklet No. 5 + Hachette letter – Rare

Description:
Magnificent complete collection of 34 Tintin booklets, red edition, published by Hachette / Moulinsart in the early 2010s (2010/11).
Homogeneous series, numbered from 1 to 34, including:

Classic albums:
The Blue Lotus, Tintin in Tibet, The Seven Crystal Balls, The Prisoners of the Sun, Destination Moon, Explorers on the Moon, The Secret of the Unicorn, The Treasure of Rackham the Red, The Broken Ear, King Ottokar’s Sceptre, The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star, The Calculus Affair, Coke en Stock, The Jewelry of Bianca Castafiore, Flight 714 for Sydney, Tintin and the Picaros, The Cigars of the Pharaoh.

Tintin films:
The Mystery of the Blue Diamond (The Mystery of the Unicorn? note: original French title is Le Mystère de la Toison d’Or), The Blue Oranges, The Shark Lake? (Note: The Lac aux Requins is commonly translated as The Lake of Sharks.)

Documentaries:
Me, Tintin – Tintin and Me.

Reports / themed volumes:
7 volumes Following in the Footsteps of Tintin.

Rare items included in this lot:
Original No. 5 booklet with printing error
The Baxter and Wolff visuals are inverted (edition error confirmed by Hachette).

Corrected No. 5 booklet
Sent later by Hachette to replace the erroneous booklet.

Official Hachette letter
Document explaining the error and confirming the dispatch of the corrected booklet.
Highly sought after by collectors.

Authentic duplicates received with the subscription:
2× No. 2
2× No. 8
2× No. 22
These duplicates come from Hachette re-shipments (defects or delays), typical of subscriptions at the time.

These items increase the lot’s value, as they attest to the editorial history of the collection.

Condition:
Booklets in very, very good overall condition.
Covers clean, colors vivid, no missing pages.
Complete series + edition variants.

Provenance / Authenticity:
Collection from a Hachette / Moulinsart subscription.
Presence of the official letter confirming the No. 5 booklet error.