{"id":12092,"date":"2022-06-20T06:31:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T05:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2022-06-20T06:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T05:31:49","slug":"cover-me-piccolo-covers-and-gretta-x-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2022\/06\/20\/cover-me-piccolo-covers-and-gretta-x-3\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cover Me’, Piccolo Covers and ‘Gretta’ X 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

After mentioned the recently published paperback edition of<\/span> ‘Cover Me’<\/strong><\/span><\/a> having an update which now includes a photo of Kitty Peffer posing for the cover I was really pleased to get a copy so I could check it out thanks to author Colin Larkin. Plus always nice to have a plug for the site.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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By one of those strange coincidences I got an email from Kathy, Sam’s Great Niece’ the same day to say they had been having a tidy out and found the candlewick bedspread, as on the cover and photo, being used to cover some furniture and was I interested? I am now the proud owner of said bedspread and will pick it up next time I am down that way.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>I still look out for Piccolo covers, PAN’s children’s imprint, as they are often by well know artists and this time it is a couple both called Alan namely<\/span> Alan Cracknell <\/strong><\/span><\/a>(‘Rainy Day Ideas’<\/strong> ) <\/span><\/em><\/span>and<\/span> Alan Lee<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (‘Bushrangers Bold’) <\/span><\/strong><\/em>the latter probably as the art director of ‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Hobbit’ etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Having rescanned a cover of ‘Gretta’<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> by Erskine Caldwell for a recent blog I though it was a good opportunity to scan the others numbered G219. I am often left wondering why PAN felt the need to change the artwork so often, and not just a reprinting? I can understand for a film tie in or possibly a repricing which would need a new code letter (G as in G219 meant it was 2\/6) but this is four covers over six years. Two of the covers are by Hans Helweg for which he got paid \u00a342 (1960) and \u00a350 16s (1965)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After mentioned the recently published paperback edition of ‘Cover Me’ having an update which now includes a photo of Kitty Peffer posing for the cover I was really pleased to get a copy so I could check it out thanks to author Colin Larkin. Plus always nice to have a plug for the site. By […]<\/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\/12092"}],"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=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}