{"id":11669,"date":"2022-03-21T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T06:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2022-03-21T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T06:45:05","slug":"fishing-nevil-shute-and-a-miscellany-from-lyn-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2022\/03\/21\/fishing-nevil-shute-and-a-miscellany-from-lyn-kirby\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing, Nevil Shute and a miscellany from Lyn Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Having got football out of the way a few weeks ago I am now going to do the same with another subject I’m not really into, namely fishing. I quite like the idea of using it as an excuse to sit on a bank and read a book but as for actually catching a fish this doesn’t really appeal. I know it is one of the most popular past times world wide so it’s probably just me. I think the first time PAN got into angling was in 1967 with the publication of ‘Fishing’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Richard Arnold and numbered M203. It was around 1973 that PAN started the ‘PAN Angler’s Library’<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>of which I have found 14 titles label as such but there may be more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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There was a post on the ‘Shutists’ Facebook page where someone had noticed a mistake in the list of books by Nevil Shute in the 1973 6th printing of ‘An Old Captivity’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>It includes ‘Gold From Crete’ <\/strong><\/em><\/a>which is <\/span><\/span>by C S Forester and not Shute. I have looked in both the 5th and 7th printings and it is not there but I will looking in other titles from around that time.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Having written about Lyn Kirby, who worked at PAN in the 80s, she sent me a few snippets which I’m happy to include here;<\/span>
1) Lyn’s boss was David Bleasdale, Production Director, and who was used as the model for the cover of ‘The Autobiography of Henry VIII’ <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a>which was painted by Gino d’Achille<\/span>
2) When Lyn left she was presented with a dummy book of Douglas Adam\u2019s latest in the Hitchhiker series ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’<\/em> <\/strong><\/a><\/span>
3) Lyn was tasked with sourcing the lenticular picture on the box and the hardback of ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>and as with most things plastic back then it probably came from Hong Kong.
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4) Lyn was asked  to do the colour correction on the cover of ‘Wicked Willie<\/strong><\/em><\/span>‘<\/a>. She wrote “The pink of his face had to match the pink of his ahem, Willie and that was something I was a bit embarrassed about telling my repro house at my tender age!”
5) It’s a small world as Lyn is a room guide at Nuffield Place<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and you never know we may have met each other when we were down there recently for a family gathering.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having got football out of the way a few weeks ago I am now going to do the same with another subject I’m not really into, namely fishing. I quite like the idea of using it as an excuse to sit on a bank and read a book but as for actually catching a fish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}