Fellow PAN Fan Jeremy Birch sent me an envelope he found in his M207 copy of ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’ It contains several black and white photos of scenes around Dorchester and annotated on the back with the references to passages in the book. Jeremy is happy to give them to the Hardy Society and as he doesn’t use email he asked me. I contacted them and by return I got a message to say could they would be very interested so I have sent them on. I have put a couple of examples on the M207 page.
Having mentioned the PAN logo being in different coloured rectangles last week made me take another look and I was really surprised to see how many variants there were on the spines in the earlier editions before they settled down to using yellow.
These are just a few of the more distinct colours as some may be faded and there are even more on the dust jackets with one being a pink logo in a green box.
Sorting out Dick Francis titles I found I had three editions of ‘The Sport of Queens’ and laying them in a row I think the covers got progressively worse as the price increased from 70p to £4.99. Richard Stanley Francis (31/010/1920 – 14/02/2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. More than forty of these novels became international best-sellers.