{"id":12295,"date":"2022-07-25T06:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T05:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=12295"},"modified":"2022-07-25T06:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T05:56:59","slug":"a-great-find-dashiell-hammett-and-cockleshell-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2022\/07\/25\/a-great-find-dashiell-hammett-and-cockleshell-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Find, Dashiell Hammett and &#8216;Cockleshell Heroes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can image how happy I was when I found this countertop display stand from around the 1950&#8217;s at an antiques centre in Stroud and at a price I was happy to pay especially as it included shipping. In the photo I&#8217;ve used PAN numbers 1 to 9 but may use it for the titles with dustjackets.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Numbered.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Numbered-632x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12309\" width=\"474\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Numbered-632x1024.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Numbered-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Numbered-768x1244.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Numbered-948x1536.jpg 948w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Numbered.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having mentioned I had got behind with my scanning I&#8217;ve taken the opportunity of the &#8216;heat wave&#8217; to stop inside where it is cooler and have now scanned all my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2022\/Hammett\/All%20Titles.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dashiell Hammett<\/span><\/strong><\/a> covers and related titles. PAN published only four of his five titles, not including <em><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8216;The Thin Man&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em> for some reason plus a couple of collections of short stories. I have grouped them by title and then printing rather than same themed covers together.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having noticed it was the 80th anniversary of &#8216;Operation Frankton&#8217; in December (I know it&#8217;s early but probably forget when we actually get there) I have scanned all my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2022\/Heroes.htm\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Cockleshell Heroes&#8217;<\/span> <\/strong><\/em><\/a>editions as they tell the story of the operation. This was filmed in 1955 and at the back of the editions up tom 1970 there is an Appendix F which tells of the making but then gets dropped in future editions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Heroes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Heroes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12300\" width=\"453\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Heroes.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Heroes-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can image how happy I was when I found this countertop display stand from around the 1950&#8217;s at an antiques centre in Stroud and at a price I was happy to pay especially as it included shipping. In the photo I&#8217;ve used PAN numbers 1 to 9 but may use it for the titles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295"}],"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=12295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}