I had an email from Bazeer at Pizgloria.com asking if I had spotted the above on eBay. I will admit I am a bit behind in my searches so I hadn’t noticed it but we both agreed our pockets weren’t deep enough for this display advert. Somebody’s were though as it went for the asking price of £260. I also noticed Doug Redenius selling the below on Facebook. By the time I got around to asking what he might want for it, it had already been sold for $150. If it had still be available that one might have had me rattling the piggy bank. The ‘007 Night Spot’ at the London Hilton Hotel was a James Bond themed bar that open in 1968 and closed in the late 1970’s and the menu’s were made from genuine PAN book covers.
PAN always did have an eclectic catalogue of titles and one I particularly like is ‘The Book of the Sausage’ MD Ralph Vernon Hunt was at the book launch and he is well known for portraying James Bond on the directors covers, the spy who was not adverse to a bit of hide the sausage himself I’m led to believe.
While looking through old copies of ‘The Bookseller’ from 1991 I came across a reference to an obituary for Clarence Paget that was going to appear the next week. I have tracked it down and it can be viewed HERE. Paget was probably most well know for editing ‘The PAN Book of Horror Stories’ taking on the mantle after Herbert van Thal.
And finally the answers to last weeks quiz as if you needed them; 1) 1944 2) Alan Bott 3) Ten Stories by Rudyard Kipling 4) Mervyn Peake 5) Full colour cover artwork 6) Paris 7) A lot of pornography came from France 8) Ian Fleming 9) To sell a million copies 10) Ralph Vernon Hunt 11) Leslie Charteris 12) The PAN Book Of Horror Stories 13) Macmillan, Collins, Heinemann or Hodder & Stoughton 14) Great PAN 15) James Herriot 16) Edward Young 17) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 18)1987 19) PAN Macmillan 20) Jackie Collins