Yippee, it’s taken a long time but here it is at last!
For the last few years I have been hunting for X705 ‘Junior Crosswords Book 3’ and now thanks to the generosity of Elly and PAN’s archive team giving me a copy, I hope I have finally complete the collection of pre SBN editions. I think there are 2,391 titles with one of PANs numbers that were used before SBNs and ISBNs. I now have at least one edition starting at just number, then GP, followed by G, X, M and various other letter prefixes to indicate price. I also have all the PAN Piper titles which start with a double letter prefix.
It great to have it on the shelf as its space has been kept by a 4th printing with a SBN as a place filler.
People say “What are you going to do now you have them all?” well don’t worry there is still plenty of material out there including cover and printing variants, artwork, catalogues, advertising and associated ephemera plus later titles of course.
Congrats Tim. Great news! I can stop looking now too
Hi Bazeer, Thanks for that. I’m sure there must be Australian printings I need my agent to look for. A you may have seen Joe noticed I was short of the Australian printing on OHMSS and sent me a copy. I’ll be glad when it’s a bit cooler here but luckily my computer is in a cool room so that’s my excuse for sitting at it longer than I should. All the best, Tim
Congratulations on the Final Piece, fred from Canada•••••••I am still in existence will write a catch-up soon.
Hi Fred, Thank you, we must have a catch up soon to see what we have managed to find out in the wilds. Cheers, Tim