Someone posted on Facebook a very small black and white screen shot of Richard Burton reading a PAN book in the film ‘Villain’ You could just about make out it was a first edition of ‘The Diamond Smugglers’ by Ian Fleming but I have managed to get a better one in colour. Both the 1960 and 1962 editions have covers by David Tayler. Another addition to the ‘PAN as seen in films’ page.
Something else that was posted on Facebook was a cover for ‘The Living Daylights’ mocked up to look like a PAN cover. I’ve tried to read the ‘number’ but failed so far. There are many sites showing pastiche PAN Bond covers which I did start listing but have now given up.
Not quite sure why but I can’t resist a Papersculpture book of which PAN published two, both by Goldley and Creme, who were also a rock duo around the end of the 1970s..These titles are often priced high with a couple of ‘The Railway Children’ on eBay for £63 and £57. They’ve been there a while so that might be a reflection on the price, I can’t find another copy of ‘Cromwell’ currently available so to get my latest for £4.99 was a bargain. I seem to have 15 of the one and 6 of the other, maybe time to reign in this obsession and leave a few for someone else.