A couple of nights ago I got a call that came up as ‘Doctor’ on the house phone. Straight away my thought was what do they want to test me for now? It was the receptionist who said ‘We’ve just had a call from Dr Nambisan who’s on holiday in India, what was the title of that book you wanted?’ Now that’s what I call patient doctor care as I mentioned this to her once when we were chatting about my books what seems like years ago. She said then that PAN books were very common in India and if she was there she would look out for X705 ‘Junior Crosswords Book 3’ by Robin Burgess but it sounds like she mislaid the title she wrote on a prescription pad at the time. This is the one numbered title I still need for the collection.
A few years back I set out to make a page of all the Piccolo Explorers titles which was when I was scanning covers in at a lower resolution than now. I have just acquired a bit of ephemera namely an Explorers bookmark which I’ve put on my web page. It was while looking at it I realised I had not included the six titles in the Bible Stories series which I had found in Malta. These are now added and as usual please let me know of any titles I have have missed.
I don’t know why but I like boxed sets or those in a slip case and PAN editions of James Herriot are amongst my favorites. I have a Canadian printing slip case set of 4 titles, another Canadian printing boxed set of 6 still wrapped in plastic and the same set that has been opened . I have just added a slip case set of 3 UK printings and I’ve put them at the bottom of my Herriot page which can be seen HERE