I’ve been communicating with artist and musician Jooce Garrett for the last few weeks and he has provided me with a lot of media which I’ve put on his page. Although Jooce currently resides and has his atelier in Switzerland he grew up in Birmingham and told he me often cycled from Handsworth to Hednesford, via Brownhills, to visit his uncle. As I may have mentioned I am involved with a group of old fogies who keep the disused railway line between Walsall and Lichfield open as a community greenway and this runs through Brownhills. This is not only a practical activity but also social as it gets us out the house (and into the pub) and although we were only runners up in the recent King’s Award for Voluntary Service it is always nice to be acknowledged. Jooce is currently in a couple of bands including the Killadillas. He kindly scanned his copy of ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for me as I’ve not found a copy of this particular edition plus Jooce doesn’t think ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was ever published with his cover artwork.
Another cover David Tayler produced a rough for but which wasn’t used was for X97 ‘Of Whales and Men’ by R B Robinson. This was only published once by PAN in 1961 and they went with different artwork by Pat Owen.
The above clipping appeared In the Daily Mirror on the 14th November 1971 which mentions the trilogy of Elizabeth I books by Margaret Irwin. Having recently received my copy of ‘Page and Screen’ by John Mabey I looked to see if they were in it, which they were, but spotted a mistake. I contacted John to let him know and he thanked me and asked me to see if I had any titles he may have missed so thinking cap on.
The clipping also mentions a couple of titles from popular PAN series including ‘Hitchcock’ and ‘Horror’